Transferring a C: drive Image of the Primary Bootable Partition to a second Primary Drive Partition

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David Rhind

I have XP Pro presently installed on the C: Primary partition on an
IDE
hard drive and am about to restore an Image File of this C: partition
onto
the Primary
partition of a second SATA drive . This partition has the letter L .

It is my intention to eventually remove the IDE drive and thus have
the PC
boot to the XP-installed SATA drive , thus , if sucessful, avoiding
the need
to re-instal XP.

Before doing this I am wondering whether this will work as I
understand a
Bootable partition has to have the letter C.

Is this a correct assumption , does anyone know ?

If this is a requirement , will changing the drive letter from L to C
in
"Disk Management" be all that is required here ?

B.N..
 
David, imaging your drive back to the same partition usually presents very
little problems. Imaging to a different drive, different
partition usually results in difficulties. One major difficulty is Path
Variable changes. Programs are looking for C: and now it's
changed to L: Also if I remember correctly you cannot change the System
Drive/Partition Letter. So you will be stuck with
L: You can try a Repair Install after you imaging but if you go that
route you may as well just reinstall WinXP. Hopefully
you have a Slipstreamed WinXP + SP2 CD. If not there are many sites that
will instruct you on how to create one.
www.eldergeek.com comes to mind. Get AutoStreamer. Mucho easy with
that.
 
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