Swapping Hard Drive?

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I have 3 HDD's running XP Pro. The boot drive (C:) is an old 5400rpm
(5gig.) The other 2 are 7200rpm's. What is the easiest way to get rid of
the old drive and use the 2nd 7200rpm as my boot drive without too much
hassle? I know what I have to do hardware wise, just needed some
suggestions on the software side.

TIA
 
Ingit said:
I have 3 HDD's running XP Pro. The boot drive (C:) is an old 5400rpm
(5gig.) The other 2 are 7200rpm's. What is the easiest way to get rid of
the old drive and use the 2nd 7200rpm as my boot drive without too much
hassle? I know what I have to do hardware wise, just needed some
suggestions on the software side.
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You need to do a clone copy of the partition from the old drive to the
new one

What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) and
Paste.

Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.
 
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