I have two separate hardDrives,Dual-Boot.....Primary(c:) is on a 40 gig(Windows 2k Pro).. Slave is on a 80gig(windows XP Home).. I want to Clone the Windows XP to a 320 gig .I have two programs that will Clone ,Copy Commander 7 and Acronis which is on the XP.What I want to end up with is .......cloned Primary(c:)320gig,.....take out 40gig and use as a extra(somewhere else) .........put "old"80gig(with " old original XP" in drive bay and leave it unhooked from power and EIDE cable for a Clone backup. My reason for doing this is to clone my HardDrive because it is about full and I NEED to keep my information.I want a large HardDrive with only ONE usable drive don't need win2k (older windows) ...Another Question is there going to be a problem with XP being the Slave originally? ........................................... DELL2k(c:) partition basic NTFS Healthy(System) ..... DELLXP(d:)partition basic NTFS Healthy(Boot) Comment, This is such a GREAT WEB SITE! THANKS and have a great productive day....

"is there going to be a problem with XP being the Slave originally?" Excellent question!!! Yes, there is going to be a problem. An operating system drive cannot have its address changed, and still work. Your XP Home disk has probably been installed as D: (the 40gb is C:). If you shuffle your drives around like you intend, the XP Home will end up as the C: drive, which is not going to work. It will also not have the boot files, which are on the 40gb drive. I think you should byte the bullet and do a fresh install on the new drive.

THANKS aegis1 for your Quick reply. I sure would not like to lose all my programs. I know I can reinstall the OS but I have programs that I have accumulated over the years that I don't have the exe files or programs that I downloaded from the WEB. I will have to think about this hard before I try this. THANKS anyway. Have a good productive day.

You can do your clone then run a repair install to correct the registry entries. You will need to redo all of your service pacs and you may need to reinstall/regedit the apps path since its the drive letter change from d: to c: that messes this up.

I have never tried a repair on a disk that has a changed address. But I don't think a Repair Install will change 'all' the D: references in the Registry to C:. It might repair all the operating system references, but I don't think it will change all the references of the programs that you have installed.

THANKS wanderer, I am still thinking about it. Seems that I am between a rock and a hard place.THANKS anyway..... Have a good productive day.

What I have done successfully is to run the repair and then do a regedit search on d: specifically and manually change the entries to c: Bit of a pain but it works.