Preston, you are more than half way there so I will not cover this in too
much detail. There are plenty of commercial programs that will set up a new
drive, I bet Maxtor has one on its site. You can, however, do this using
windows only, if you have Win98 or 2000, with xcopy.
First, whether you get a program or use windows xcopy, I would suggest as my
one and only insight, that you install the new drive as the MASTER with the
old drive disconnected (so the system doesn't see it), and partition it.
THEN, change it to slave and reconnect the old drive as master.
After you format the new partitions D: G: and H: (E: and F: will be the old
D: and E:), if you plan on using xcopy, open a dos box, switch to the d:
drive, and type
xcopy c: d: /r /i /c /h /k /e /y
repeat for E to G and F to H.
There are lots of good reasons to use programs designed specifically for
your task, but reliability isn't one of them, xcopy works just fine for a
mirror image transfer. I don't know if it works for xp.
Tom Turak
-----Original Message-----
From: Betti Ann & Preston Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:02 AM
I have a 6 Gig drive (about six years old) with three partitions - Windows,
Applications, and Data.
I bought a 30 gig drive today - Maxtor Diamond max Plus - Ultra ATA/133.
I want to use the new drive as my boot drive and the old drive for Linux
So here is my approach - I need verification that I am on the right track
1) Install the new drive as a slave
2) Make three partitions on it and format them. First partition would be
formatted as system drive.
3) Do a total copy of each old partition to the corresponding new partition
(I need a suggestion on what program to use to do this)
4) Change old drive from master to slave
5) Change new drive from slave to master
6) Hopefully, reboot system
7) install Linux on old drive
Should a do a new install of Windows and update from the Windows site
instead of moving the Windows partition to the new drive?
Am i on the right track?
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