HD New Partition

[Dennis Sedgwick]

I understand there is a way to create a new HD Partition
without losing the data. Can someone tell me how?

Situation:

I have replaced the HD with a larger one. HP Pavilion,
WinXP. The OS and everything successfully copied from old
drive to new, and it works, but only the "C" Volume
copied. Now I want to copy the "D" (Restore) Volume to
the new drive. The high addresses should be clean, as
there's not a bunch on the drive yet.

I did the "C" Volume only because when I tried to copy
while formatting both C and D, it appeared to copy but
wouldn't boot from the new disk.

-Dennis

[Chris Lanier]

You must purchase a program like Partition Magic to do this
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

"Dennis Sedgwick" > wrote in message
...
> I understand there is a way to create a new HD Partition
> without losing the data. Can someone tell me how?
>
> Situation:
>
> I have replaced the HD with a larger one. HP Pavilion,
> WinXP. The OS and everything successfully copied from old
> drive to new, and it works, but only the "C" Volume
> copied. Now I want to copy the "D" (Restore) Volume to
> the new drive. The high addresses should be clean, as
> there's not a bunch on the drive yet.
>
> I did the "C" Volume only because when I tried to copy
> while formatting both C and D, it appeared to copy but
> wouldn't boot from the new disk.
>
> -Dennis
>

[R. C. White]

Hi, Dennis.

What program did you use to copy everything to the new drive? Did you let
it create a single partition covering the whole HD? If so, then there is no
space remaining to enclose in a second partition. You can buy third-party
software (such as Partition Magic) to shrink the first partition, but your
best bet is probably to start over, before you invest more time in this
arrangement. Next time, limit Drive C: to the size that you need for WinXP
(at least 3 GB) and whatever else you want on Drive C: - plus some elbow
room, now while you have "more disk space than you'll ever need". ;^}

Most programs can easily copy all your FILES, but the boot sector is not a
file and can't be copied in the usual way. The boot sector is an essential
part of the boot process, so if your new Drive C: doesn't have a boot
sector, you cannot boot from it. In that case, after moving your new HD
into the primary master position, you will need to boot from the WinXP
CD-ROM and run the Repair procedure. This will write the boot sector and
also update the few system files (C:\ntldr, C:\ntdetect.com and
C:\boot.ini). You should be able to boot from your new HD after that.

Later, if you like, you can install your old HD as slave. You can use it as
is, or repartition it and reformat it using Disk Management.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Dennis Sedgwick" > wrote in message
...
> I understand there is a way to create a new HD Partition
> without losing the data. Can someone tell me how?
>
> Situation:
>
> I have replaced the HD with a larger one. HP Pavilion,
> WinXP. The OS and everything successfully copied from old
> drive to new, and it works, but only the "C" Volume
> copied. Now I want to copy the "D" (Restore) Volume to
> the new drive. The high addresses should be clean, as
> there's not a bunch on the drive yet.
>
> I did the "C" Volume only because when I tried to copy
> while formatting both C and D, it appeared to copy but
> wouldn't boot from the new disk.
>
> -Dennis

[Dennis Sedgwick]

Thanks, I did start over, and got it set up fine. -Dennis