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GeneralInstalling a new Hard drive Pin
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Mike Nordell30-Jun-02 3:57
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Let's call your current installation partition of the OS A, the "rescue" one B, and the one you finally want to become your boot partition C (note that in MS terminlogy "boot" and "system" is so mixed up you might get ideas of where crack was first invented).

Install the new HD.

Partition and format it to your hearts delight.

Install another XP as "rescue" on its own partition. Make the smallest installation you can. This is B.

Reboot, starting your newly installed "rescue" OS B. This is needed since the original OS (A) keeps some of its vital files locked down so hard you can't even copy them.

Copy only the files in the root directory from A to C (on the new drive, and make sure it's a "primary" partition and that it's made Active) first. This might not be needed anymore, but it can't hurt (to place the system vital files in the beginning of the partition).

Copy all the other stuff from A to C (everything but the root-dir that is already copied).

Posibly fiddle with your boot.ini on the new-"C:"-to-be if you changed partition-order or something.

Shut down. Don't remove any partitions yet!

Switch the drives so the 40GB takes the place of the old drive (switch master/slave and/or swithing cable, depending on how you did it).

Make sure your computers BIOS recongnize the "new" (40GB) drive as the first drive. Boot.

At this point you _should_ be running your old OS installation, but off the new drive. You however have to verify this yourself (by whatever means you can come to think of - different filesystem labels is usually enough).

Now, when you have verified that your "old" OS boots from the new drive, shut down, remove the old drive and once again verify that everything boots up as expected.

Once this is done, reinsert the old drive, start up again, remove that old partition from the old drive and do what it whatever you like.
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