I use xxcopy from www.xxcopy.com (free) to make exact copies of drives. The
site includes detailed directions to installing new drives and copying the
old drive to the new drive. In your case, I believe you will have to copy
each partition. Look up the site and program to see if you want to use it.
My son and I have both used it several times to install new drives. As a
bonus, I also use it for incremental backups. The site has full
instructions.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Betti Ann & Preston Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:02 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Swapping hard Drives


> 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?
>
> Thanks
> Preston
>
>
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