20g hard primary drive sec 40g hard drive

[Guest b]

slow machine only 1100mz

I want to change the primary hard[C] to the sec hard drice[D]

[C] holds Xp pro info

what I do to change them over

[Guest Jason]

Re: 20g hard primary drive sec 40g hard drive

 

Backup everything. Once the jumpers are changed on the drives you will need

to re-install XP and other software.

"b" <b@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> slow machine only 1100mz

> I want to change the primary hard[C] to the sec hard drice[D]

> [C] holds Xp pro info

> what I do to change them over

[Guest Gerry]

Re: 20g hard primary drive sec 40g hard drive

 

Why? What difference do you expect it to make?

 

If you have too little free space on C there are far simpler ways to

resolve the problem than what you seem to be contemplating!

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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Stourport, England

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b wrote:

> slow machine only 1100mz

> I want to change the primary hard[C] to the sec hard drice[D]

> [C] holds Xp pro info

> what I do to change them over

[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: 20g hard primary drive sec 40g hard drive

 

"b" <b@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> slow machine only 1100mz

> I want to change the primary hard[C] to the sec hard drice[D]

> [C] holds Xp pro info

> what I do to change them over

 

This is more complex than you seem to think. Simply moving the files will

change the drive designations but not the registry references, which will

generally be rendered invalid. The system may not even boot.

 

You really want to clone the C drive to a larger disk.. Where I am, 80 gig

drives are around $45. You can use your existing drives if you clear the

secondary drive, perhaps to a temporary space on another much larger system,

then clone the C drive to that, then wipe the C drive and copy the D data

back to it. After you've cloned the C drive to the larger disk, install

*only* the "new C" for the first boot.

 

If you don't have cloning software, there's a 15-day free trial version of

Acronis TrueImage you can download and install on another system.

 

HTH

-pk

[Guest John]

Re: 20g hard primary drive sec 40g hard drive

 

 

"Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote in message

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> If you don't have cloning software, there's a 15-day free trial version of

> Acronis TrueImage you can download and install on another system.

 

Does the trial version let us clone HDs for real? Is it not crippled in any

way?