upgrading harddrive

[Mij Jones]

i got a bigger harddrive than my old 1, and did a disk
copy. I changed the jumper to the right settings so the
new harddrive would be master the old 1 slave. when i
boot up it says old drive is c: and not new 1, or wont
log on at all saying it has a problem with certain
registered keys and logs off again, before it even goes
into desktop. I am runnining XP pro , does anone now how
to solve this?

 

[peter]

did you change the location on the cable??
peter

 

[Guest]

yes i did

-----Original Message-----
did you change the location on the cable??
peter



.

 

[Guest]

How did you 'copy' the drive.

Most copying processes will not transfer hidden Operating System files.

XP labels drives and you won't change the drive letter by running a copy and
switching from Slave to Master and vice versa.

A successful transfer from small to large drive, will require disk cloning
software such as Norton Ghost. Some hard drive manufacturers prepare their
'retail' drives with a CD that will do this all 4 u. Maxtor and Seagate have
great tools which work. If you have another brand try searching the web pages
for your hard drive manufacturer.

After cloning, you will need to perform a repair installation in order for
XP to operate properly.

 

[BR549]

You cannot move and OS from one drive to another by doing a disk copy.

i got a bigger harddrive than my old 1, and did a disk
copy. I changed the jumper to the right settings so the
new harddrive would be master the old 1 slave. when i
boot up it says old drive is c: and not new 1, or wont
log on at all saying it has a problem with certain
registered keys and logs off again, before it even goes
into desktop. I am runnining XP pro , does anone now how
to solve this?

 

[Mij]

i used Max blast to copy drives a program from maxtor

 

[Mij]

thanks for that, i will try using another clone program,
that max blast was crap and took a long time to do.