Help? Problem upgrading XP boot drive

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I'm trying to replace my 40 gig XP boot drive with a 60 gig Maxtor drive. I
tried Maxtor's software (MaxBlast 3), and it appeared to partition and copy
everything correctly (for three hours). Once it got to where it should have
loaded WIndows, nothing happened. Just sat there before where the splash
screen would have come up. I booted from the 40 gig and looked at the 60 in
Windows Explorer, and it said that the 60 wasn't formatted and asked if I
wanted to format it now.

On the advice of Maxtor tech support, I tried the copy with PowerQuest Drive
Image 2002. It couldn't do the copy because "Disk Manager" was installed on
the destination drive, so I fixed that. (Another Maxtor tech support guy told
me this might have been the problem with the MaxBlast copy, so I tried that
again with the same results.) When I started to do the copy in Drive Image, I
noticed it said it was going to do this...

Deleting partition: D:
(HPFS, Primary volume, 58643.5 MB on Disk:2)

Copying partition: C:
(NTFS, Primary volume, 38154.3 MB on Disk:1)
To unallocated space on Disk:2

Setting partition active: D:
(NTFS, Primary volume, 38154.3 MB on Disk:2)

Assuming the copy even works, this makes it seem like I'm going to lose 20
gigs. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, is there any way to do this
copy and still get full use out of the 60 gig drive?

Or is there something else I can do? Argh. Thanks for any help.
 
It's a very straight forward task to copy the entire 40GB drive to the 60GB
drive using Norton Ghost (Disk to Disk option). Before starting the copy,
Ghost will give you the chance to decide on the partition sizes on the new
drive.

I suggest you boot the PC using a Win98 boot floppy and then run Ghost from
a floppy.

If you don't understand about how to set master/slave jumpers on hard
drives, you might want to read up on that first.
 
John said:
It's a very straight forward task to copy the entire 40GB drive to the 60GB
drive using Norton Ghost (Disk to Disk option). Before starting the copy,
Ghost will give you the chance to decide on the partition sizes on the new
drive.
Click to expand...

Thanks, that did the trick. BTW, Ghost 2003 never actually gave me a chance to
choose the partition size, but it partitioned it using all the space like I
wanted. I appreciate the help.
 
HQ said:
Thanks, that did the trick. BTW, Ghost 2003 never actually gave me a chance to
choose the partition size, but it partitioned it using all the space like I
wanted. I appreciate the help.
Click to expand...

Ok. Good one. I'm using Ghost 7.5.
 
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