How to 'sys' my new hard disk?

[JC]

I bought a new hard disk. It is installed as drive D. I
would like to transfer the system files so that I can
make it my boot disk(I cannot find the sys.exe file).
Help please.JC

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi JC,

Please describe the exact configuration you are trying to achieve. Are you
looking to simply move the system to the new drive, or incorporate it into
the existing one?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"JC" > wrote in message
...
> I bought a new hard disk. It is installed as drive D. I
> would like to transfer the system files so that I can
> make it my boot disk(I cannot find the sys.exe file).
> Help please.JC

[Walter Clayton]

You don't "sys" it. You reinstall.

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Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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"JC" > wrote in message
...
> I bought a new hard disk. It is installed as drive D. I
> would like to transfer the system files so that I can
> make it my boot disk(I cannot find the sys.exe file).
> Help please.JC

[Ron Martell]

"JC" > wrote:

>I bought a new hard disk. It is installed as drive D. I
>would like to transfer the system files so that I can
>make it my boot disk(I cannot find the sys.exe file).
>Help please.JC

If you want to use it as your boot disk the best way of doing this,
without having to reinstall a lot of stuff, is to use a disk cloning
utility to copy the entire contents of your old hard drive to the new one.

You can use:
- DriveImage from PowerQuest (www.powerquest.com)
- Norton Ghost from Symantec
- BootItNG from www.bootitng.com
- Disk cloning utility from the manufacturer of your new hard drive.
Check their web site.

Then remove the old hard drive completely and reconfigure the new hard
drive so it is the Primary Master drive. Boot the computer and make
certain that Windows is copied correctly and working properly on the new
drive.

Then, and only then, it is safe to install the old hard drive back into
the computer as the primary slave drive or as the secondary master drive.
You can then reformat this drive and use it.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Yes, but, or in addition, even if you reinstall Windows on the new disk,
the boot disk will still be the other disk. The ony way to get *all* of
XP on the new disk is to remove the old disk, install the new disk,
install XP, and then reinstall the old disk.

The boot files are ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini. They are on the
active partition on the boot device, which contains the active boot
sector. Windows can be anywhere else, for example, on the second drive
in the D: partition.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows


"Walter Clayton" > wrote in
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> You don't "sys" it. You reinstall.
>
>
> "JC" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I bought a new hard disk. It is installed as drive D. I
> > would like to transfer the system files so that I can
> > make it my boot disk(I cannot find the sys.exe file).
> > Help please.JC
>
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