Extremely frustrated over adding HD.

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Johnny

Could some one please explain exactly how to add a new
hard drive, clone your original C drive contents to it
and then set the new one as 'C' so you can remove the old
drive if you wish?
I have tried partition magic with no luck. Now I am
using Norton Ghost to clone the drive but every time I go
to physically swap the hard drives (master to slave) my
computer will not boot up as a single drive but it will
boot only if the original drive is there. How can I set
the new cloned parition to be the C drive?
Many thanks to whoever can solve this once simple task!
 
Are you setting the Master/Slave jumpers correctly? Your old drive should be
set to master, the new one to slave; then clone the old to the new. Then set
the new (cloned) drive to master (and the original drive to slave if you
want it in the system). If you did the cloning correctly the system should
boot.
 
Steve,
That's exactly what I did and the new drive will not
boot. The system is dependent on the original C drive.
I can change the drives from master to slave and even get
the new drive's Windows XP to boot but only as F drive,
not C.
Someone said to do what you suggest and then make sure
the newly cloned drive is the only drive in the system on
the first boot to it but that made no difference...
Could there be a change I need to make to the boot.ini
file? I tried a recovery install of XP and that didn't
work. I also tried bootcfg /rebuild and set the new
drive as the primary windows installation to boot from
but it always boots as F and then I can't remove the old
C drive.
Any other thoughts on what should be a simple task?
Thanks
 
ARe you using GOBACK? It causes these types of problems,
as it locks the drives. If you are usisng GOBACK, disable
it.
 
No I wasn't using Goback. Thank you for your efforts. I
have it solved now:

You must use Ghost with its DOS start up disk. Boot with
that disk, clone the drive then shut down the computer
never letting WindowsXP boot. Change the hardware so the
new drive is on its own as the primary and reboot. Then
it will boot with the new drive configured as C. Then
add the old drive as a slave if you need. What an
obscure work-around! Judging by the meriod of questions
on this subject, it is not an obvious procedure nor
widely understood with XP users.
 
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