Swap Hardrives

[Dave]

I currently have 2 hardrives C: and D:
My C: contains all my program files as well as my
operating system (XP) and D: contains music etc.

I want to get a new C: and replace the current one. My
question is, how do I transfer everything from my old C:
to my new C: and just install the new one and boot up
straight away?

Please help,
Regards, Dave

 

[Malke]

I currently have 2 hardrives C: and D:
My C: contains all my program files as well as my
operating system (XP) and D: contains music etc.

I want to get a new C: and replace the current one. My
question is, how do I transfer everything from my old C:
to my new C: and just install the new one and boot up
straight away?

The new hard drive you get will, if it is a retail box, come with a
utility to copy your old drive to your new one. If you buy whitebox,
you can download the utility from the drive mftr.'s website. The
procedure is to attach the new hard drive as slave (you would have to
disconnect your D: drive temporarily), boot with the utility and follow
the wizard. Then you'll put the new drive in the old master's place,
after jumpering it correctly, and reattach your D: drive. Or you can
image the C: drive with something like Ghost, BING, or Drive Image.

Malke

 

[SteveL]

There are several HD duplicators, ghost is one, drive
image is another.

 

[Guest]

The best way is to install the new hard drive on any cable position open. All dirves should be jumpered "CS" (cable select) so that the cable position indcates slave or master. Norton Ghost works best to clone the drive, but Acronis Disk Image and Casper XP can be downloaded as a trial version to do this one time job. If you can use Ghost, boot from the Ghost floppy, pick your source & destination drives and copy the entire partition to the new drive. You can then disconnect the original boot drive, move the new drive to the old drive connection, remove the Ghost floppy and reboot. All should be well. The floppy utility that comes with new retail box drives usually works but Ghost is far better and faster. You might consider keeping the old drive as a backup and reverse the process at least once a week. You can setup XP with a dual boot in case C gets messed up or goes down. If not XP manually changing drives is called for.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I want to get a new C: and replace the current one. My
question is, how do I transfer everything from my old C:
to my new C: and just install the new one and boot up
straight away?

What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1),
highlight the Free Space in it, and Paste.

You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or leave some free space so
as later to make a new separate partition it

Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.

 

[jch]

What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1),
highlight the Free Space in it, and Paste.

You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or leave some free space so
as later to make a new separate partition it

Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.

Alex, Does your news reader have a 'Reply to Group' feature? If so please
use it so your contribution is part of the original thread and not a
stand-alone comment. Thanks...

 

[Malke]

Alex, Does your news reader have a 'Reply to Group' feature? If so
please use it so your contribution is part of the original thread and
not a
stand-alone comment. Thanks...

JCH - This is the second time you've posted this message that I've seen
so far. It actually must be that you've got Outlook Express set up
incorrectly, because all the posts on which you have commented show up
correctly threaded in my newsreader (KNode).

Malke

 

[jch]

JCH - This is the second time you've posted this message that I've seen
so far. It actually must be that you've got Outlook Express set up
incorrectly, because all the posts on which you have commented show up
correctly threaded in my newsreader (KNode).

Hi Malke. As I'm sure you'll read in another post, I don't believe I have my
OE configured incorrectly. This stand-alone reply issue isn't that frequent
and actually seems to be confined to only a few contributors (in this case
Alex). While I don't understand how news articles get tagged to be a part
of threads or how different news servers handle that, I do believe that
these few contributors I've noticed might be using servers, readers, etc.
which cause an issue for OE. I will fire-up my KNode and see how it looks.

 

[jch]

Hi Malke. As I'm sure you'll read in another post, I don't believe I have
my OE configured incorrectly. This stand-alone reply issue isn't that
frequent and actually seems to be confined to only a few contributors (in
this case
Alex). While I don't understand how news articles get tagged to be a part
of threads or how different news servers handle that, I do believe that
these few contributors I've noticed might be using servers, readers, etc.
which cause an issue for OE. I will fire-up my KNode and see how it looks.

OK. I'm running RedHat Fedora and am in KNode now and I'd forgotten how cool
KNode is. I have the "Show Threads" Option checked and for the vast
majority of news items I see threads and their replies correctly displayed.
HOWEVER, there are several stand-alone contributions, eg starting with RE:
, which are replies to other posts but are not part of a thread. Most of
these come from Kelly and Alex. So, this issue is not isolated to OE. IT
does however, seem to be a function of posts from Kelly and Alex. Any
ideas? BTW, I don't mean to seem like I'm picking at Kelly and Alex. I see
their posts behaving differently than most others and I'm trying to figure
out what's up. Thx.

 

[Malke]

Hi Malke. As I'm sure you'll read in another post, I don't believe I
have my OE configured incorrectly. This stand-alone reply issue isn't
that frequent and actually seems to be confined to only a few
contributors (in this case
Alex). While I don't understand how news articles get tagged to be a
part of threads or how different news servers handle that, I do
believe that these few contributors I've noticed might be using
servers, readers, etc. which cause an issue for OE. I will fire-up my
KNode and see how it looks.

Everything looks OK here.

Malke

 

[CS]

Hi Malke. As I'm sure you'll read in another post, I don't believe I have my
OE configured incorrectly. This stand-alone reply issue isn't that frequent
and actually seems to be confined to only a few contributors (in this case
Alex). While I don't understand how news articles get tagged to be a part
of threads or how different news servers handle that, I do believe that
these few contributors I've noticed might be using servers, readers, etc.
which cause an issue for OE. I will fire-up my KNode and see how it looks.

JCH:

To add fuel to what Malke wrote, the threads you responded to likewise
show up correctly threaded in my newsreader. (Agent 2.0). I would
guess the problem is on your end.

Regards.

 

[jch]

looks.

JCH:

To add fuel to what Malke wrote, the threads you responded to likewise
show up correctly threaded in my newsreader. (Agent 2.0). I would
guess the problem is on your end.

Regards.

Back to OE now and I stand corrected for this particular thread. I didn't
realize it before I sent my last response (and later tried to cancel it to
no avail) but this particular thread does show differently in KNode than it
does in OE. In KNode I do see the original post to which Alex had replied
all correctly shown in a thread. Even in KNode however there are MANY other
stand-alone RE: articles. Wouldn't you know I'd pick on this one

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi Malke. As I'm sure you'll read in another post, I don't believe I have my
OE configured incorrectly. This stand-alone reply issue isn't that frequent
and actually seems to be confined to only a few contributors (in this case
Alex).

My posts, if you look in the headers, are correctly linked to the
reference number of the posts that they follow. More likely you are
using a server that has failed to get a copy of that post, so there is
nothing for the reference to thread to.