On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:32:14 -0400 "Michael A. Wosnick"
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> .How will the system ever boot or find anything? If I make the new
drive the
> master drive now, how will I boot up the system under Win2k, since all
those drive
> references will now be wrong.
>
> In short, how can I install the new drive and a new OS but still use
> my current drive/settings/programs for now, and then change the whole
> damn thing over in one fell swoop. Or can I?
>
> Michael

I have Win98, but it appears you are running into the same thing that I
did when recently installing a new hard drive. My old drive had three
partitions. New drive, with OS, as slave, became second partition,
changing drive letters of my last two partitions on old drive. Norton
made virtually all the necessary drive letter changes, 1000 of them, but
I would have liked to have avoided this.

For an exact replication of your existing data, an image program would
seem to be what you want. You do not say what brand drive you have. The
software for my Western Digital drive has a program that will duplicate
what's on one drive to another.

Demetri Kolokotronis

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