Changing Boot Drive

[Rob Fallingtree]

My OS is XP PRO - I want to change the boot drive (C:)
from a 9 Gig drive to a 36 Gig Drive (cuurently installed
as H: drive). Do I have to reload all the stuff currently
on C: or is there a way to 'copy' C: to H:?

Does anyone have a procedure?

Many thanks for your assistance.

[Brian Bygland]

Rob Fallingtree wrote:

> My OS is XP PRO - I want to change the boot drive (C:)
> from a 9 Gig drive to a 36 Gig Drive (cuurently installed
> as H: drive). Do I have to reload all the stuff currently
> on C: or is there a way to 'copy' C: to H:?
>
> Does anyone have a procedure?
>
> Many thanks for your assistance.

We just did this last night at my Church. You can use 3rd party programs such
as PowerQuest Drive Image or Norton Ghost to create an image of your C: drive
and then install that image on you H: drive. You'll then need to change the
drive letters so that H becomes C.

[Dr. Harvie Wahl-Banghor]

Some time, on or about: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:01:35 -0700, "Rob
Fallingtree" > was criminally insane in my
professional opinion when they claimed the following balderdash:

>My OS is XP PRO - I want to change the boot drive (C:)
>from a 9 Gig drive to a 36 Gig Drive (cuurently installed
>as H: drive). Do I have to reload all the stuff currently
>on C: or is there a way to 'copy' C: to H:?
>
>Does anyone have a procedure?
>
>Many thanks for your assistance.

There are a number of different programs out there that will allow you
to do this, some commercial, some are freeware. If you are using
Norton System Works, you probably have Norton Ghost on your PC
already. You can use this program to perform the task. I also use a
program called DiskCopy, which has proven to be fairly easy to use. If
you buy a retail box of a hard drive from a retail establishment,
sometimes they provide a disk that will contain a free program that
will allow you to copy from one drive to another. May I suggest you
might want to try to do a Google on the subject because I have seen
Freeware out there that may be just as usefull.

[Brian Smither]

I did this and barfed up my system. Allow me to tell my story even though
you may not have any problems considering your XP boot partition is C:.

The system originally had a 3.4G holding W98SE and W2K (drive C:) and a 15G
holding WXPpro (D:). I imaged the contents of the 15G to a 120G, no
problem. I imaged the contents of the 3.4G to the 15G. W2K and WXP would
BSOD (I forget the stop code.) I put the 3.4G back in, no problem.

The imaging program I used was V-Com's DriveWorks 6.

Consult MS Knowledge Base articles 249321, 223188, and 234048 for more
information about W2K and above's tight hold on hardware.

I believe that if I had followed the steps in 223188 prior to imaging, I
wouldn't have had any problems. As it was, I ran the repair console on W2K
(on the 15G drive) which didn't fix the problem and only made the WXP boot
even worse. I again put the 3.4G's image back on the 15G drive and I was
back to square two.

After all was said and done, I did the FDISK /MBR trick as mentioned in
249321. All's good now.


"Rob Fallingtree" > wrote in
:

> My OS is XP PRO - I want to change the boot drive (C:)
> from a 9 Gig drive to a 36 Gig Drive (cuurently installed
> as H: drive).

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