Jun-

I think I would like to try this, but I am not completely sure of the
procedure. What would the "marching order" be? Do I just put the new HDD in
as a slave, and xcopy to it? Does xcopy create the partitions, or do I
first FDISK the new HDD and establish the primary and extended partitions?
Thanks for your response.

Gary



At 12:28 AM 8/29/00 +1000, you wrote:
>If you run win98, you can use "xcopy" comand line to copy harddisk contains.
>you'll need to:
>1) open a DOS window within win98 (important, you must run xcopy within DOS
>window)
>2) use the "richkey" switch, eg if you want to copy everything form C: to
>E:, the command is XCOPY /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y C:\*.* E:\
>
>I've used xcopy to transfer harddisk for many times (over 100 at least),
>haven't failed yet (there is a small chance that you could have problem with
>short file name format).
>
>Jun Qian
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gary Kaucher" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 1:18 AM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] HDD Copy
>
>
>> I have a 2.5 GB HDD currently partitoned into a 2.0 GB C: drive and a 500
>> MB D: drive. I would like to replace it with a 6.0 GB HDD that I will
>> remove from a used computer that I just bought. If possible, I would like
>> to somehow transfer the contents of the 2.5 GB HDD to the 6.0 GB HDD so
>> that all files will once again occupy the C: and D: drives. I will be
>> ultimately be removing the 2.5 GB HDD. I don't have any kind of Backup
>> Device. I was wondering if there might be some procedure that I could use
>> to transfer the files by making the 6.0 GB HDD a slave, transferring the
>> files, and then making it the master by itself.

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