joe black
December 7th 03, 12:41 AM
partition magic will only let you mess with the
partitions. what you wanted to use was drive copy. your
ssytem would not boot because when you copy drives via
dos or windows it does not make it a system disk. you can
also use a program like norton ghost.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have purchased a 80Gb hard disk to replace my current
>20Gb running XP Pro and want to copy my entire system to
>the new drive, so that I can remove the old drive.
>I tried copying the partition using Partition Magic,
which
>it did, but the new drive will not boot once the old
drive
>is removed - I think because it has been assigned as
drive
>D: whereas the copied partition will have references to
>drive C:.
>I didn't fancy trying to change the drive letter to C:
>because I would need to redefine the current C: drive
>first - which would mean that one wouldn't boot either ?
>Is there an easier way ?
>
>Andy.
>.
>
partitions. what you wanted to use was drive copy. your
ssytem would not boot because when you copy drives via
dos or windows it does not make it a system disk. you can
also use a program like norton ghost.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have purchased a 80Gb hard disk to replace my current
>20Gb running XP Pro and want to copy my entire system to
>the new drive, so that I can remove the old drive.
>I tried copying the partition using Partition Magic,
which
>it did, but the new drive will not boot once the old
drive
>is removed - I think because it has been assigned as
drive
>D: whereas the copied partition will have references to
>drive C:.
>I didn't fancy trying to change the drive letter to C:
>because I would need to redefine the current C: drive
>first - which would mean that one wouldn't boot either ?
>Is there an easier way ?
>
>Andy.
>.
>