Installing new HDD to act as Master.

[bluegnu]

Hi,

I'm installing a new HDD and I want to copy all my files on my existing HDD onto the new one. Then I want the new one to be the master and the old one to be the slave.

Using Windows XP.

So I have a few questions about that:

1) Can this be done simply by copying the contents of the old drive onto the new drive, then chaning the jumpers on the HDD's? I suspect thats too simplistic.

2)If not, whats the easiest/correct way of doing this.

3)If yes, whats the easiest/correct way of doing this.

so basically I want to boot up winXP on the new drive without losing any of the shortcuts or having to reinstall anything.

cheers

B

 

[Snickle]

I use DriveCopy to 'clone' drives but others use DriveImage and Ghost.

Simply copying one drive to another doesn't work well with Win2000/XP. Can work with earlier versions but it is time consuming.

There will be other posts with suggestions for you.

 

[bluegnu]

cheers

Not sure I'm going to be able to do it looking at Ghost. My old HDD is FAT32 and the new one is formatted to NTFS and ghost doesn't like that.

B

 

[Snickle]

I'd probably put the new drive in temporarily as an Only/Single drive, boot to a Win98 floppy/boot disk, run fdisk and delete the non-DOS Primary partition. Reboot and create a Primary DOS partition and then format the drive FAT32. Could always be converted to NTFS later.