replacing system drive

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Keith Panik

Hello, Is there any way to replace the hard drive that contains the system
partition without re-installing windows. Right now I have 3 physical hard
drives each having 1 partition. C: (system partition) is an eide drive I use
for storage, which is the one I am trying to exchange. D: is a SCSI drive I
use for data files, E: (boot partition) has windows and program files.
Ultimately I would like to have my boot partition drive be C: with the
system partition also, and make the eide drive e:.


TIA
keith
 
Keith said:
Hello, Is there any way to replace the hard drive that contains the system
partition without re-installing windows. Right now I have 3 physical hard
drives each having 1 partition. C: (system partition) is an eide drive I use
for storage, which is the one I am trying to exchange. D: is a SCSI drive I
use for data files, E: (boot partition) has windows and program files.
Ultimately I would like to have my boot partition drive be C: with the
system partition also, and make the eide drive e:.
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If you want to have the system installed so that it ('the 'Windows'
folder) is on C as well (this MSoft nomenclature of system and boot
being contrary to logic). then you will need to start with a clean
install of Windows. As it is the letter E is so pervasive in the
registry that trying to move things will lead to tremendous confusion.

A course though would be to make exact clone copies of your C and E onto
a new physical disk, adjust their sizes using the same program as for
the copying, and live with the lettering. For that I would use BootIT
NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional
trial)
 
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