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Replacing Hard Disk
I don't know if this is right place to ask, but I will
give it a try. I would like to replace my 30 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive with a 60GB 7200RPM one. I would prefer not to reinstall windows XP Pro all over again. Can I install the new drive as a slave and copy the OS files to the new drive somehow? Then swap the two drives so the new is master and old is the slave? Thanks |
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Replacing Hard Disk
You will need to install the new drive as master and the old drive as
slave,then use BootIt NG,Ghost,Drive Image, or Partition Magic to clone the old drive to the new disk. -- Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User) Associate Expert Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at http://home.triad.rr.com/faq/WNS2003%20FAQ.htm Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone _____________________________________________ "Bill" wrote in message ... I don't know if this is right place to ask, but I will give it a try. I would like to replace my 30 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive with a 60GB 7200RPM one. I would prefer not to reinstall windows XP Pro all over again. Can I install the new drive as a slave and copy the OS files to the new drive somehow? Then swap the two drives so the new is master and old is the slave? Thanks |
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Hi, Bill.
Your plan makes sense to me. After physically installing the new drive as slave, boot to your old WinXP as usual and use Disk Management to partition and format the new drive. Be sure the first (or only) partition is a primary partition, so that it can be made bootable later. Then use Xcopy.exe - with the proper switches - to copy everything from your old drive to the new one. I usually use a command line like: xcopy C:\*.* X:\ /c /h /e /r /k (Type xcopy /? to see the meaning of these and other available switches.) These switches cause Xcopy to include all files in all subdirectories, creating the identical directory structure on the new drive. The new drive letter X: is variable, of course; it is only a temporary designation, anyhow, because it will change (to C when you swap physical drives later. You can speed up the Xcopy process by cleaning out such things as your recycle bin, TIF, etc., before you begin. When everything is copied, remove the old HD and install the new one as primary master. Don't reinstall the old HD just yet. At this point, you can't boot to the new drive because it doesn't have a proper boot sector. Xcopy will have copied all the FILES, but the boot sector is not a file and Xcopy can't deal with it. So, you will need to boot from your WinXP CD-ROM and let it "Repair" the copy of WinXP which it will find on the NEW Drive C:, using the fixboot command from the Recovery Console. That oughta do it. Then you can install the old drive as a slave, if you like, and use Disk Management to handle any further partitioning, formatting, drive letter assigning that you may need to do. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP "Bill" wrote in message ... I don't know if this is right place to ask, but I will give it a try. I would like to replace my 30 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive with a 60GB 7200RPM one. I would prefer not to reinstall windows XP Pro all over again. Can I install the new drive as a slave and copy the OS files to the new drive somehow? Then swap the two drives so the new is master and old is the slave? Thanks |
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Most new disks come with a software disk that will do exactly what you want.
I just replaced the old 30GB HDD in my son's computer with a new Western Digital 120GB 7200rpm SE (*MB Cache) drive, and I used the utility that came on the enclosed floppy disk to move everything from the old drive to the new drive, swictched the drives and jumpers, rebooted, and reformatted the old drive using Disk Management under windows. Bobby "Bill" wrote in message ... I don't know if this is right place to ask, but I will give it a try. I would like to replace my 30 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive with a 60GB 7200RPM one. I would prefer not to reinstall windows XP Pro all over again. Can I install the new drive as a slave and copy the OS files to the new drive somehow? Then swap the two drives so the new is master and old is the slave? Thanks |
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You will need some type software to copy your system totally. My Maxtor
came with MaxBlast which all I had to do was to do as you did with setting up new drive as slave and their software copied this completly and perfectly. Just be sure your new drive has the software to this. Most do. I am fairly sure Western Digital has it also. Otherwise you may have to spend extra for software. "Bill" wrote in message ... I don't know if this is right place to ask, but I will give it a try. I would like to replace my 30 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive with a 60GB 7200RPM one. I would prefer not to reinstall windows XP Pro all over again. Can I install the new drive as a slave and copy the OS files to the new drive somehow? Then swap the two drives so the new is master and old is the slave? Thanks |
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You can also go to the manufactures web page and get some of the
software from them. Dan (Still going in circles) On Tue, 27 May 2003 21:02:26 -0500, "Donald Link" wrote: You will need some type software to copy your system totally. My Maxtor came with MaxBlast which all I had to do was to do as you did with setting up new drive as slave and their software copied this completly and perfectly. Just be sure your new drive has the software to this. Most do. I am fairly sure Western Digital has it also. Otherwise you may have to spend extra for software. "Bill" wrote in message ... I don't know if this is right place to ask, but I will give it a try. I would like to replace my 30 Gb 5400 RPM hard drive with a 60GB 7200RPM one. I would prefer not to reinstall windows XP Pro all over again. Can I install the new drive as a slave and copy the OS files to the new drive somehow? Then swap the two drives so the new is master and old is the slave? Thanks |
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