Transferring XP to secondary drive

[Bob]

My C:\ drive is about to give up the ghost...it's a 10gb that came with the
pc (Dell), OS (XP Pro) installed. I bought several of these from a testing
company that went out of business. Essentially, they were used to take
measurements, etc. and communicate via network to server, etc....

Anyway, I installed an 80gb drive to use for file and data storage and am
wondering what the easiest way would be to move the OS to the newer D:\
drive, change it to master and just chuck the old C:\ drive.

Thanks

Bob

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You may wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability".
Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999


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| My C:\ drive is about to give up the ghost...it's a 10gb that came with the
| pc (Dell), OS (XP Pro) installed. I bought several of these from a testing
| company that went out of business. Essentially, they were used to take
| measurements, etc. and communicate via network to server, etc....
|
| Anyway, I installed an 80gb drive to use for file and data storage and am
| wondering what the easiest way would be to move the OS to the newer D:\
| drive, change it to master and just chuck the old C:\ drive.
|
| Thanks
|
| Bob

 

[Bob]

it's a Maxtor and I have the MaxBlast software which doesn't allow just
moving the OS to an otherwise formatted and partitioned hard drive...unless
you want to live dangerously...it will try to do so without guarantees that
either disk will be bootable....for a "safer" option, the software wants to
delete all date, reformat and repartition the D:\ drive and then move the
old C:\ drive to the newer D:\ drive...not what I had in mind...in the "old"
days under FAT, xcopy32 did a fine job of transferring
everything -regardless- to a different drive...

still looking...there must be an easier way...

Thanks

Bob

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You'll need a third-party imaging program.

Norton Ghost 9.0
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/features.html

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| it's a Maxtor and I have the MaxBlast software which doesn't allow just
| moving the OS to an otherwise formatted and partitioned hard drive...unless
| you want to live dangerously...it will try to do so without guarantees that
| either disk will be bootable....for a "safer" option, the software wants to
| delete all date, reformat and repartition the D:\ drive and then move the
| old C:\ drive to the newer D:\ drive...not what I had in mind...in the "old"
| days under FAT, xcopy32 did a fine job of transferring
| everything -regardless- to a different drive...
|
| still looking...there must be an easier way...
|
| Thanks
|
| Bob

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Bob

Xcopy32 still does a good job, but XP can't be moved that way.. I can't
really see why you have a problem with the Maxblast method..

 

[Timothy Daniels]

it's a Maxtor and I have the MaxBlast software which doesn't allow just
moving the OS to an otherwise formatted and partitioned hard drive...unless
you want to live dangerously...it will try to do so without guarantees that
either disk will be bootable....for a "safer" option, the software wants to
delete all date, reformat and repartition the D:\ drive and then move the
old C:\ drive to the newer D:\ drive...not what I had in mind...in the "old"
days under FAT, xcopy32 did a fine job of transferring
everything -regardless- to a different drive...

still looking...there must be an easier way...

Go to http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/ and download
their trial version of Caster XP. It's expressly for making clones
on internal HDs. As with all WinXP clones, boot the clone up for
the first time with the "parent" WinXP system invisible to it (e.g.
unplug it or remove it) so that the new OS will not become
permanently dependent on the presence of the "parent". After
you shut the clone down, you can reconnect the "parent" HD and
thereafter you can choose which one will boot by putting at the
head of the BIOS's hard drive boot order or by adding an entry
in both systems' boot.ini file. You can identify which system is
running by putting a folder on the Desktop having a name that
identifies the WinXP system that it's in.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Bob]

The problem is that the D:\ drive has a little more than 30gb of data and
files on it already. It was formatted as NTFS and added as a slave. I don't
want to lose all of the data already stored.

Thanks

Bob

 

[Timothy Daniels]

The problem is that the D:\ drive has a little more than 30gb of data and
files on it already. It was formatted as NTFS and added as a slave. I don't
want to lose all of the data already stored.

Use Casper XP to clone the C: "Local Disk" (i.e. your system partition)
onto the hard drive which contains your D: "Local Disk" (i.e. your data
partition). The clone will call itself "C:" when it boots up, and it will assign
the data partition the name "D:". Remember to boot the clone for the
first time without the "parent" visible to it.

*TimDaniels*