i used the utility that comes with the WD drives. it says it will make a
primary partition bootable.

Chuck Finnigan
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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.
>
> Orf Bartrop
>
> cfinnigan wrote:
>
> >I've been booting with a Western Digital 20GB drive with a WD 80GB slave.
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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