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Fred Marshall
I'm working to upgrade a system to a larger HD - with the objective of
keeping the XP system intact. The HD now has:
Two CD drives
One HD with:
C: active bootable primary partition with DOS on it. This partition has
boot.ini and ntldr
D: was one a CDROM drive
E: a logical bootable drive with the primary XP system on it
F: a writable DVD/CD drive
G: a primary bootable drive with a small XP install (I had to add this
because DiskImage7 was damaged and unfixable otherwise on the primary XP
system).
etc. This was added recently.
With the earlier attempts of doing the copy, the CDs now show up as F:
(writable) and J: (CDROM) and there is no D:. Probably not important.
Here is my plan which seems to have flaws:
A) The existing drive is master on an IDE controller. Add the new drive as
slave.
1) Copy C: onto the new drive as primary, active, bootable and copy the MBR.
2) Copy E: onto the new drive as logical, bootable, don't copy the MBR.
3) Copy G: onto the new drive as primary bootable, don't copy the MBR.
[the selection of primary and logical only because that's what's on the old
HD]
B) Remove the old hard drive and connect the new one as master on the same
controller.
Some tries I could get one of the XPs to boot but not both - and, I think
never the main XP on E:
Of course I want the the partition drive letters to be the same as in the
beginning. I can use Disk Manager in XP assuming things get that far.
A curious thing: in boot.ini, the os partitions show up as E: being the 3rd
and G: being the 2nd. Is this because the primary partitions are enumerated
first, followed by the logical partitions? That's all I can think of.
Thanks,
Fred
keeping the XP system intact. The HD now has:
Two CD drives
One HD with:
C: active bootable primary partition with DOS on it. This partition has
boot.ini and ntldr
D: was one a CDROM drive
E: a logical bootable drive with the primary XP system on it
F: a writable DVD/CD drive
G: a primary bootable drive with a small XP install (I had to add this
because DiskImage7 was damaged and unfixable otherwise on the primary XP
system).
etc. This was added recently.
With the earlier attempts of doing the copy, the CDs now show up as F:
(writable) and J: (CDROM) and there is no D:. Probably not important.
Here is my plan which seems to have flaws:
A) The existing drive is master on an IDE controller. Add the new drive as
slave.
1) Copy C: onto the new drive as primary, active, bootable and copy the MBR.
2) Copy E: onto the new drive as logical, bootable, don't copy the MBR.
3) Copy G: onto the new drive as primary bootable, don't copy the MBR.
[the selection of primary and logical only because that's what's on the old
HD]
B) Remove the old hard drive and connect the new one as master on the same
controller.
Some tries I could get one of the XPs to boot but not both - and, I think
never the main XP on E:
Of course I want the the partition drive letters to be the same as in the
beginning. I can use Disk Manager in XP assuming things get that far.
A curious thing: in boot.ini, the os partitions show up as E: being the 3rd
and G: being the 2nd. Is this because the primary partitions are enumerated
first, followed by the logical partitions? That's all I can think of.
Thanks,
Fred