Upgrading Hard Drive

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I want to upgrade my hard drive from 60GB to 300GB. The drive is
currently partioned into three partitions: Drive C, D and E.

In the past, I have used PowerQuest Drive Copy which would copy all
the logical drives to the new drive and allow resizing the new
partitions.

I tried this now and even though the program says it completed
properly, the new drive will not boot.

I am using WinXP Pro SP2.

Is there something in XP that prohibits changing drive sizes?? Or, is
the program missing something since it is pre-WinXP.

Or, is there another program that will accomplish the same function.

Any help or hints would be greatfully appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

Joe
 
Hi Joe,

How far does the boot go?
Is there an error message?
Have you run fixboot from the Recovery Console yet?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Joe said:
I want to upgrade my hard drive from 60GB to 300GB. The drive is
currently partioned into three partitions: Drive C, D and E.

In the past, I have used PowerQuest Drive Copy which would copy all
the logical drives to the new drive and allow resizing the new
partitions.

I tried this now and even though the program says it completed
properly, the new drive will not boot.

I am using WinXP Pro SP2.

Is there something in XP that prohibits changing drive sizes?? Or, is
the program missing something since it is pre-WinXP.

Or, is there another program that will accomplish the same function.
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Well, for a start the MBR is, I believe, not part of any file system, so
just copying the partitions may not copy the MBR. However you didn't say
what message you got when trying to boot, so that may or may not be the
problem.

There is nothing in WinXP that stops the changing of partition size, but
you may have probablems if the partition that you are booting has a
physical address past a certain limit (due to register sizes or something).

In addition a 300GB drive may need a change in the BIOS (unlikely) or a
special driver from the drive manufacturer since it is bigger than
137GB. You'll need to review the information on the manufacturers website.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
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