upgrading the hard disk

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I have installed a larger capacity disk. I want to copy ALL the contents of
C, which is the current drive, to D and make D the primary. I will then
remove the C and make D the primary master , or the new C.

Basically I do not want to have rebuild the system with XP etc, when it is
already installed on the low capacity C.

Thanks
 
I may be wrong about this but if your C drive is NTFS I don't think you can
do what you want without some 3rd party application like Ghost or Drive
Image. There is an image utitlity that I've used that can downloaded for a
30day trial period that does work, it's called Image for Dos and can be had
at http://www.bootitng.com/image.html. The problem is that it would require
yet a 3rd disk to put the image on.
 
totaltom said:
I have installed a larger capacity disk. I want to copy ALL the contents of
C, which is the current drive, to D and make D the primary. I will then
remove the C and make D the primary master , or the new C.

Basically I do not want to have rebuild the system with XP etc, when it is
already installed on the low capacity C.
Click to expand...

What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 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) and
Paste.

You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space
remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the
rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes
in that (to become drives D:, etc)

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. Also make a check that this partition is in the same place in
the table as it was if you do a View MBR on the old one - if not use the
Up or down to correct it.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.
 
I may be wrong about this but if your C drive is NTFS I don't think you can
do what you want without some 3rd party application like Ghost or Drive
Image. There is an image utitlity that I've used that can downloaded for a
30day trial period that does work, it's called Image for Dos and can be had
at http://www.bootitng.com/image.html. The problem is that it would require
yet a 3rd disk to put the image on.
Click to expand...

Ghost 2002 and Drive Image 5 or later can do NTFS volumes fine.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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