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| 212862 | 2004-02-04 19:14:00 | I want to upgrade a 4 gig to a 60 gig HD win2000 I have conected the new drive to PC and it is now E: and formated NTSC Can I now just copy all files from C: to E: and then remove the old drive and make the new one the Master? Will long file names remain? Booting? |
keyman (4790) | ||
| 212863 | 2004-02-04 20:01:00 | You won't be able to "just copy" all files from C: to E: because some of them will be in use. You need a program like Norton Ghost to make an exact copy of 4GB HDD to 60GB HDD and then be able to remove 4GB and boot from 60GB. The only other way would be to remove 4GB and set 60GB as master and do a fresh install of Win2k on it. Then plug 4GB in as slave and copy over any data you want. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 212864 | 2004-02-04 20:14:00 | Or, if you're on a Budget, Boot a Knoppix CD (Freely available for download) and run partimage. Its an open-sourced HDD / Partition Imager. Works brilliantly! Im pretty sure QtParted is on there too, so you can change/adjust your partitions too :-) It does note that NTFS writing works _best_ if you defrag first, and you should be without Problems (You should really defrag / scandisk first anyway!). Hope this helps Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 212865 | 2004-02-04 20:37:00 | Use the utility that came with your new drive (or download from the manufacturers site), to partition, format and migrate your OS and data to the drive. I'd tend to ceate at least 2 partitions on the new drive and copy/backup all the important stuff to whatever partion won't be boot prior to setting the new drive to boot from the other partition. Is your current drive NTFS or FAT 32 file format? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 212866 | 2004-02-04 20:40:00 | The method I would use is to disconnect the old HDD, partition the new HDD into two or three partitions, format them, install Windows on C: then reinstall programs. Once that is done I would plug the old HDD back in as slave and copy data to new HDD then format old HDD sometime when all is going well on new drive and possibly use old drive as a backup if it is still working well. Nothing like a nice clean install on a nice new hard drive. ;-) |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 212867 | 2004-02-04 20:51:00 | > . . . . > Nothing like a nice clean install on a nice new hard > drive . This is exactly what I'll do . |
bk T (215) | ||
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