Haven't seen any replies to this one so I'll jump in with some possibly
not-too-well informed comment:

I would have thought this would have worked...except then I started to
wonder how you'd set up and formatted the slave drive to begin with. And
then used the WD copy program.

It's just that most of my experience has been with W98, and if this was a
W98 situation, I'd be booting into DOS and doing the format and disk copy
from there.  Not sure how one does that with XP.

Anyway, I've found that the WD format and disk copy doesn't always work,
even with 98 - this is possibly because I have a Raid\Ata mobo and for some
reason the WD, as well as the Seagate and Maxtor disk utilities, don't
always work 100%.

But I get around it like this: I use FDisk to format the new drive.  Then I
plonk both drives (the original and the one I want to clone) into another,
separate system which has Drive2Drive installed on it.

Then boot up (from C) and use Drive2Drive to clone D onto E (or whatever)

Note that the free copy of D2D only clones drives of equal size, whereas the
paid copy has no limitation, and redistributes free space.



Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 11:58 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive Swap


> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to swap hard drives in my system but am having some trouble.
The system runs on WinXP Pro and I have two 40.Gig Western Digital drives
installed. Currently, the primary master drive is 5400 rpm. I want to swap
places with the primary slave drive which is 7200 rpm. I used WD's disc copy
utility but windows won't boot from the newly copied slave drive turned
master. I changed the jumpers to the new position but had to change them
back when I couldn't boot WinXP. Do I need to partition and format the 7200
rpm drive and then re-install windows? It seems this might be a copy
protection scheme for WinXP not booting. Could it be that this is all a
waste of time wanting the faster drive as the primary boot device? Any
comments are greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Gary J.
>
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