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Transfer windows to 2nd Hard Drive
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Name: dtm1664
Date: June 7, 2005 at 01:56:34 Pacific
Subject: Transfer windows to 2nd Hard DriveOS: Windows XP ProCPU/Ram: athlon 64 3500+ /1 mb DDR |
Comment: Hi,I have XP running on 2 gig IDE as I had problems installing it on my new SATA Maxtor due to driver recognition. Is there any way I can copy the complete contents to my SATA - I am concerened that some files will obvioiusly be in use in Windows/Dos and that it will not boot. Thanks.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Dr. Zhivago
Date: June 7, 2005 at 02:28:55 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Call their tech support people before you buy it, if you need to be convinced that it will work with your hardware. http://www.v-com.com/product/Copy_Commander_Home.html
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Reply: (edit)Use a program like Ghost 9.0 and copy "drive to drive" with both drives connected and you should have no problem. Acronis true Image would do the same thing.
You could also do it by making an image file of one, and then restoring it to the other but be certain you tell the Restore to move the mbr as well. Satas can get really nasty over that.
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Name: wanderer
Date: June 7, 2005 at 10:27:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you had problems loading the sata drivers why would you think transferring to the sata would solve that? You can't just copy files. More to booting than files. Its locations that count. Your main issue is you need to load the sata drivers upon bootup in XP.
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