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Bob T
I wrote earlier, but the post was unclear. I'm trying
again.
I have a new WD HDD. I want to copy the contents of my
current Maxtor drive to the new drive and have the new
drive, become the boot drive with the system files and be
the active drive.
I do have GHOST which will allow disk to disk clones to be
made.
I know that MS says, once established, you cannot change
the drive letters of the boot or systems drives. Since
the old drive has these designations, I have to somehow
trick W2K into changing them.
I was told, this can be done by making a drive to drive
image and then restarting the system so that it sees only
the new drive.
What I plan is to do is use the old, primary master as the
source drive, use GHOST to clone the image to the new,
unformatted, slave. Someone also mentioned I need to do
something to the clone before transferring it, but the
didn't know what.
The next part is the tricky part. At the end of the xfer,
GHOST says to "continue," which will reboot the computer.
If this is done, then the drives will be seen on POST, and
the new drive will be put at the end of the old drive
instead of the beginning. It will be given the
designation of HDD 1, it's primary partion starting with
the next available letter of the old drive. Which is
exactly what I don't want to happen.
Instead, I want the new drive to become HDD 0. With it
having the system files and marked as active and starting
with the 1st partiton as "C."
I tried this once, but the system, although setting the
new drive as HDD0, kept the system files on the old drive
and it's "C" drive as the active drive.
I need to know any tricks I should do. (or even if this is
the best way to transfer the data and get everything to
work?)
--when GHOST says "continue," evne instead of
selecting "Yes," should I power down the system instead?
Then, change the new drive to the primary, with the old
drive disconnected and reboot--this will force W2k to
recognize it as a new active/system/boot drive and assign
appropriate letters, making it HDD 0?
Reboot. At this point if I go to Disk Management, I will
get a wizard asking me if I want to mark the drive. What
do I do with this?
Then, whether I do the mark, or cancel it, Shutdown, add
the old drive back in as the Primary Slave.
Since W2K, now has a new HDD 0, although the old drive is
still be marked HDD 0, W2k will disregard this and make it
HDD1 and put it's partitions following HDD 0's, keeping
the newly formed system & active "C" on the new drive?
Is this how to do it? Or is there an easier way to clone
the disk to the new hard drive?
Also, "action" say to "rescan disk" and a wizard comes up
to "write signiture to the drive." How do I handle these?
Thank you,
Bob
again.
I have a new WD HDD. I want to copy the contents of my
current Maxtor drive to the new drive and have the new
drive, become the boot drive with the system files and be
the active drive.
I do have GHOST which will allow disk to disk clones to be
made.
I know that MS says, once established, you cannot change
the drive letters of the boot or systems drives. Since
the old drive has these designations, I have to somehow
trick W2K into changing them.
I was told, this can be done by making a drive to drive
image and then restarting the system so that it sees only
the new drive.
What I plan is to do is use the old, primary master as the
source drive, use GHOST to clone the image to the new,
unformatted, slave. Someone also mentioned I need to do
something to the clone before transferring it, but the
didn't know what.
The next part is the tricky part. At the end of the xfer,
GHOST says to "continue," which will reboot the computer.
If this is done, then the drives will be seen on POST, and
the new drive will be put at the end of the old drive
instead of the beginning. It will be given the
designation of HDD 1, it's primary partion starting with
the next available letter of the old drive. Which is
exactly what I don't want to happen.
Instead, I want the new drive to become HDD 0. With it
having the system files and marked as active and starting
with the 1st partiton as "C."
I tried this once, but the system, although setting the
new drive as HDD0, kept the system files on the old drive
and it's "C" drive as the active drive.
I need to know any tricks I should do. (or even if this is
the best way to transfer the data and get everything to
work?)
--when GHOST says "continue," evne instead of
selecting "Yes," should I power down the system instead?
Then, change the new drive to the primary, with the old
drive disconnected and reboot--this will force W2k to
recognize it as a new active/system/boot drive and assign
appropriate letters, making it HDD 0?
Reboot. At this point if I go to Disk Management, I will
get a wizard asking me if I want to mark the drive. What
do I do with this?
Then, whether I do the mark, or cancel it, Shutdown, add
the old drive back in as the Primary Slave.
Since W2K, now has a new HDD 0, although the old drive is
still be marked HDD 0, W2k will disregard this and make it
HDD1 and put it's partitions following HDD 0's, keeping
the newly formed system & active "C" on the new drive?
Is this how to do it? Or is there an easier way to clone
the disk to the new hard drive?
Also, "action" say to "rescan disk" and a wizard comes up
to "write signiture to the drive." How do I handle these?
Thank you,
Bob