cfinnigan wrote:

>i used the utility that comes with the WD drives. it says it will make a
>primary partition bootable.
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OK, but how did you copy the contents of your old HD to the new?

Orf

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>>How did you copy the contents of your 20 Gb drive to the 80 Gb drive? If
>>you used the copy and paste commands or drag and drop it will not set
>>the 80 drive up as a bootable drive. Also, copying data this way leaves
>>several files that may be hidden files not copied across. What you need
>>to do is use is a special program, like Norton Ghost, that will set up
>>the new drive correctly and copy ALL files to the new drive.
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>>Orf Bartrop
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>>cfinnigan wrote:
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>>>I've been booting with a Western Digital 20GB drive with a WD 80GB slave.
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>Hoping to switch boot drives, I copied the contents of the 20GB drive
>(Fat32) to the 80GB drive (NTFS), switched jumpers on the drives, made sure
>the 80GB was being recognized in the BIOS as the primary boot drive and
>booted (XP Pro). My Computer continues to list the 20GB slave as the C:
>drive and the 80GB primary drive as the D: drive. when i disconnected the
>20GB drive, XP hung during the boot. Do i have to switch the names of the
>drives? what am i missing?
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