Cloning W2K to a larger harddrive

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MBrody

I am trying to upgrade my laptop hard drive from 20Gb to
80Gb. To do this I am putting both the old and new drive
on an IDE cable in a desktop machine. I have tried to use
Drive Copy and Norton Ghost 2000 to image the new drive.
Everything seems fine during the imaging. However, the
new 80Gb drive will not boot when put back into the
laptop. Any help on what I need to do to make this work
would be appreciated.
 
Check the following:

1. Does the BIOS detect the new Hard Drive successfully?
2. Is the system Partition (most probably C:\) the (first) PRIMARY
partition?
3. Has the System partition been set to ACTIVE?

Ted

PS:
- System Partition = First Primary Partition (Active) which hosts the boot
files for the OS
- Boot Partition = Partition with OS (i.e. folders including the \Winnt
Folder)

Hey don't ask me why this is so & not the other way round
 
MBrody said:
I am trying to upgrade my laptop hard drive from 20Gb to
80Gb. To do this I am putting both the old and new drive
on an IDE cable in a desktop machine. I have tried to use
Drive Copy and Norton Ghost 2000 to image the new drive.
Everything seems fine during the imaging. However, the
new 80Gb drive will not boot when put back into the
laptop. Any help on what I need to do to make this work
would be appreciated.
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Ghost has an annoying (to me, anyway) habit of trying to help when you
don't need it -- it tries to "fix" the boot.ini file on the clone
because it thinks you want to boot from there (that is, from that
connector on that IDE channel in that computer). Thus, when you move
the HDD back to the laptop, the ARCpath references in boot.ini may not
be right anymore. Take a look at the boot.ini file in the new HDD --
comparing it to the boot.ini in the original HDD may give you some
clues.
 
Yes to all of you questions.
-----Original Message-----
Check the following:

1. Does the BIOS detect the new Hard Drive successfully?
2. Is the system Partition (most probably C:\) the (first) PRIMARY
partition?
3. Has the System partition been set to ACTIVE?

Ted

PS:
- System Partition = First Primary Partition (Active) which hosts the boot
files for the OS
- Boot Partition = Partition with OS (i.e. folders including the \Winnt
Folder)

Hey don't ask me why this is so & not the other way round




.
Click to expand...
 
Have you tried ti following?

1. Create the Image o the OS partition...
2. Create a small PRIMARY partition C (say 5 GB) on your new drive...
3. Restore the IMAGE to the new drive' sC partition

Moral of the "story"...Don't use the entire drive copy option BUT rather
copy the OS partition first
 
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