Help needed on "swapping" partitions

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Can someone explain the best way of going about "swapping" partitions using
Partition Magic?
I have an 80GB hd with two partitions. One 40GB (11GB used) bootable with
Win98se and all my apps installed. The other, 40GB, is just for data and
currently empty.
I had been having problems and decided to do a complete re-install of Win98se +
apps to a second older drive.
That drive has just a single bootable partition of 12GB (8GB used).
(The drives are on ATA66 buses and so I've been using my Highpoint ATA66
boot/configuration screen to choose which drive to boot from.)
Now that I'm done, I would like to swap the two bootable partitions as the 80 GB
drive is the newer, faster drive. I would like my new (bug free) install to boot
from that drive and to be able to move the old install to the old 12GB drive and
still be bootable.
Not sure how to do this and still make both drives bootable.
 
Can someone explain the best way of going about "swapping" partitions using
Partition Magic?
I have an 80GB hd with two partitions. One 40GB (11GB used) bootable with
Win98se and all my apps installed. The other, 40GB, is just for data and
currently empty.
I had been having problems and decided to do a complete re-install of Win98se +
apps to a second older drive.
That drive has just a single bootable partition of 12GB (8GB used).
(The drives are on ATA66 buses and so I've been using my Highpoint ATA66
boot/configuration screen to choose which drive to boot from.)
Now that I'm done, I would like to swap the two bootable partitions as the 80 GB
drive is the newer, faster drive. I would like my new (bug free) install to boot
from that drive and to be able to move the old install to the old 12GB drive and
still be bootable.
Not sure how to do this and still make both drives bootable.
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You basically need to clone the new bootable partition thats on the
12GB drive to the 40GB FREE SPACE on the 80GB drive, basically
to clear the 12GB drive so the old bootable partition can be put there.
Once you have the bootable partition on the 80GB drive, clone the
old bootable partition on the 80GB drive to the 12GB drive.
Check that you can boot from that on the 12GB drive.

Now clone the new bootable partition on the 80GB drive over
the original 40GB bootable partition on the 80GB drive. This
isnt strictly essential, but it is a bit cleaner to have it on the front
of the 80GB drive. Then create the 40GB data partition again.
 
You basically need to clone the new bootable partition thats on the
12GB drive to the 40GB FREE SPACE on the 80GB drive, basically
to clear the 12GB drive so the old bootable partition can be put there.
Once you have the bootable partition on the 80GB drive, clone the
old bootable partition on the 80GB drive to the 12GB drive.
Check that you can boot from that on the 12GB drive.

Now clone the new bootable partition on the 80GB drive over
the original 40GB bootable partition on the 80GB drive. This
isnt strictly essential, but it is a bit cleaner to have it on the front
of the 80GB drive. Then create the 40GB data partition again.
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I must be doing something wrong here. I've now got a copy of the old 12GB drive
at the front of the 80GB but it's not bootable. I can boot to DOS and can read
the C: but it gives me a boot failure if I try to boot from it.
I didn't do exactly as you said but this is what I did -
Used PM to copy the 12GB dv to the beginning of the 80GB.
PM moved the original partition down enough to fit the 12GB at the front using
the free space. It then made this partition "hidden".
So now I have a 12GB (primary) partition with my new install at the front of the
drive followed by the hidden partion containing my original install followed by
free space.
Why isn't the copied partition bootable?
 
I must be doing something wrong here. I've now got a copy of the old 12GB drive
at the front of the 80GB but it's not bootable. I can boot to DOS and can read
the C: but it gives me a boot failure if I try to boot from it.
I didn't do exactly as you said but this is what I did -
Used PM to copy the 12GB dv to the beginning of the 80GB.
PM moved the original partition down enough to fit the 12GB at the front using
the free space. It then made this partition "hidden".
So now I have a 12GB (primary) partition with my new install at the front of the
drive followed by the hidden partion containing my original install followed by
free space.
Why isn't the copied partition bootable?
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It's OK. I hadn't made the partition actve! duh...
Thanks
 
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