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Nehmo Sergheyev January 3rd 04 10:15 AM

How Move OS XP from Old to New HD?
 
Windows XP Home (SP1)

I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS,
which had the OS and everything else on it.

I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0 ,which
has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back) as a slave.
It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online using NTFS. I
named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to it.
So how do I go about doing that?

The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor guy on the phone
said I could use that to move the OS, but I'm not clear how. It has a
copy function, but then how do I get the computer to know the OS is now
on E instead of C?

I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive. I just use Computer
Management.

So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?


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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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Rod Speed January 3rd 04 11:26 AM


Nehmo Sergheyev wrote in message
...

Windows XP Home (SP1)


I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using
NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it.


I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0,
which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back)
as a slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online
using NTFS.


I named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.


Be careful, it might sue you for cruel and unusual punishment.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to it.
So how do I go about doing that?


The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor
guy on the phone said I could use that to move the OS, but
I'm not clear how. It has a copy function, but then how do I
get the computer to know the OS is now on E instead of C?


Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.

You can connect the original drive again after thats been done.

I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive.
I just use Computer Management.


I havent tried doing the copy with MaxBlast.

I have done it with both ghost and drive image.

There is also now www.xxclone.com but I havent tried that either.

So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?


See above. The crucial bit is to only have the new
drive plugged in on the first boot after the copy.



Nehmo Sergheyev January 3rd 04 11:52 AM

- Nehmo -
Windows XP Home (SP1)


I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using
NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it.


I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0,
which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back)
as a slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online
using NTFS.


The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor
guy on the phone said I could use that to move the OS, but
I'm not clear how. It has a copy function, but then how do I
get the computer to know the OS is now on E instead of C?


- Rod Speed -
Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.

You can connect the original drive again after thats been done.


I havent tried doing the copy with MaxBlast.
I have done it with both ghost and drive image.

There is also now www.xxclone.com but I havent tried that either.
.The crucial bit is to only have the new
drive plugged in on the first boot after the copy.


- Nehmo -
Okay, I'm going to try it. Actually, I already saw you give similar
advice to a similar question, but I wanted some assurance with my
particular circumstances. .



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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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tomcas January 3rd 04 02:29 PM


"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...

Nehmo Sergheyev wrote in message
...

Windows XP Home (SP1)


I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using
NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it.


I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0,
which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back)
as a slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online
using NTFS.


I named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.


Be careful, it might sue you for cruel and unusual punishment.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to it.
So how do I go about doing that?


The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor
guy on the phone said I could use that to move the OS, but
I'm not clear how. It has a copy function, but then how do I
get the computer to know the OS is now on E instead of C?


Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.


Are you sure you can do this? I don't know about XP but with 2K certain
critical files are locked and will not copy (unlike win 98) . I understand
Xcopy is the way to get around this but there may be problems with long file
names.
http://www.vtwebwizard.com/tips/disk_repair.php
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs27.htm

You can connect the original drive again after thats been done.

I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive.
I just use Computer Management.


I havent tried doing the copy with MaxBlast.

I have done it with both ghost and drive image.

There is also now www.xxclone.com but I havent tried that either.

So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?


See above. The crucial bit is to only have the new
drive plugged in on the first boot after the copy.





tomcas January 3rd 04 02:34 PM


"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
...
Windows XP Home (SP1)

I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS,
which had the OS and everything else on it.

I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0 ,which
has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back) as a slave.
It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online using NTFS. I
named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to it.
So how do I go about doing that?

The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor guy on the phone
said I could use that to move the OS, but I'm not clear how. It has a
copy function, but then how do I get the computer to know the OS is now
on E instead of C?


It will ask you.


I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive. I just use Computer
Management.

So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?

I'd use the maxblast. Read and print the readme file if you need to. Avoid
using thier formater and overlay if possible.



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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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J.Clarke January 3rd 04 07:15 PM

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:15:07 GMT
"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote:

Windows XP Home (SP1)

I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS,
which had the OS and everything else on it.

I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0 ,which
has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back) as a
slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online using
NTFS. I named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to
it. So how do I go about doing that?

The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor guy on the
phone said I could use that to move the OS, but I'm not clear how. It
has a copy function, but then how do I get the computer to know the OS
is now on E instead of C?


You don't, once you copy it you make the new drive "C". Trying to move
the OS from one drive letter to another is an exercise in futility--you
_can_ do it but by the time you've found all the various places where
you have to change the drive letter you'll find that you might as
well just have reinstalled from scratch.

I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive. I just use Computer
Management.

So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?


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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Rod Speed January 3rd 04 07:43 PM


tomcas wrote in
message t...
Rod Speed wrote
Nehmo Sergheyev wrote


Windows XP Home (SP1)


I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using
NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it.


I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0,
which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back)
as a slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online
using NTFS.


I named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.


Be careful, it might sue you for cruel and unusual punishment.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to it.
So how do I go about doing that?


The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor
guy on the phone said I could use that to move the OS, but
I'm not clear how. It has a copy function, but then how do I
get the computer to know the OS is now on E instead of C?


Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.


Are you sure you can do this?


Yep, done it and quite a few have said they have done it successfully too.

I don't know about XP but with 2K certain critical
files are locked and will not copy (unlike win 98) .


You dont do the copy at the XP level, you
use ghost or drive image at the dos level.

I understand Xcopy is the way to get around this
but there may be problems with long file names.


Yep, well known problem.

http://www.vtwebwizard.com/tips/disk_repair.php
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs27.htm


You can connect the original drive again after thats been done.

I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive.
I just use Computer Management.


I havent tried doing the copy with MaxBlast.

I have done it with both ghost and drive image.

There is also now www.xxclone.com but I havent tried that either.

So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?


See above. The crucial bit is to only have the new
drive plugged in on the first boot after the copy.




Nehmo Sergheyev January 3rd 04 09:02 PM

Windows XP Home (SP1)
I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using
NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it.


I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0,
which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back)
as a slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online
using NTFS.


The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor
guy on the phone said I could use that to move the OS, but
I'm not clear how. It has a copy function, but then how do I
get the computer to know the OS is now on E instead of C?


- Rod Speed -
Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.

You can connect the original drive again after thats been done.


I havent tried doing the copy with MaxBlast.
I have done it with both ghost and drive image.

There is also now www.xxclone.com but I havent tried that either.
.The crucial bit is to only have the new
drive plugged in on the first boot after the copy.


- Nehmo -
Okay, I'm going to try it


- Nehmo -
It didn't work.
MaxBlast seemed to copy all (except a few unnecessary) files. I shut
down unplugged the old drive Restarted a message displayed:
Operating System Not Found

I shut down re-plugged in the old drive restarted like normal the
old drive is still the C drive.



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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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Nehmo Sergheyev January 3rd 04 11:49 PM

- Nehmo -
Windows XP Home (SP1)
I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS,
which had the OS and everything else on it.

I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0

,which
has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back) as a

slave.
It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online using NTFS. I
named it Grape (E:). I'm using fruit names nowadays.

Since the new drive is faster than the old, I want to move the OS to

it.
So how do I go about doing that?

The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor guy on the

phone
said I could use that to move the OS, but I'm not clear how. It has

a
copy function, but then how do I get the computer to know the OS is

now
on E instead of C?


- tomcas -
It will ask you.


- Nehmo -
It didn't. I already described what happened in another post in this
thread, but everybody doesn't read every post, and I really want to get
this question answered, so here it is again:

I shut down unplugged the ribbon (IDE interface cable) from the old
drive restarted after the usual box that appeared that lists some
things about the computer (what is this box called, incidentally?) a
message appeared: No Operating System Found. (I'm not sure if that was
the exact wording.)

- Nehmo -
I didn't use MaxBlast to set up the drive. I just use Computer
Management.
So how do I move the OS from the old HD to the new?


- tomcas -
I'd use the maxblast. Read and print the readme file if you need to.

Avoid
using thier formater and overlay if possible.


- Nehmo -
There's no readme file, but after you choose a model number, it prepares
detailed.htm , titled MaxBlast 3 Custom Installation Manual [1]. This
doesn't cover my problem. There is also the help file. And in there is
this:

"When copying from partition to partition, if the destination partition
is a primary partition, Drive-To-Drive copy will make the partition
bootable. This allows you to migrate your operating system to a new
drive even if the drive was not partitioned using MaxBlast 3."
I didn't need to use the formatter or overlay. Actually, I didn't see
those option. Anyway I erlier used the "quick format" form XP's Computer
Management when I installed the new drive.

[1] I noticed that one of the image files detailed.htm uses is a 468 KB
bitmap, newdrive.bmp . This easily could have been a jpg or a gif, using
much less space.


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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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Rod Speed January 3rd 04 11:54 PM


"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message ...
Windows XP Home (SP1)
I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using
NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it.


I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0,
which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back)
as a slave. It shows up Computer Management as Healthy and Online
using NTFS.


The new drive came with the MaxBlast 3 app. The Maxtor
guy on the phone said I could use that to move the OS, but
I'm not clear how. It has a copy function, but then how do I
get the computer to know the OS is now on E instead of C?


- Rod Speed -
Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.

You can connect the original drive again after thats been done.


I havent tried doing the copy with MaxBlast.
I have done it with both ghost and drive image.

There is also now www.xxclone.com but I havent tried that either.
.The crucial bit is to only have the new
drive plugged in on the first boot after the copy.


- Nehmo -
Okay, I'm going to try it


- Nehmo -
It didn't work.
MaxBlast seemed to copy all (except a few unnecessary) files. I shut
down unplugged the old drive Restarted a message displayed:
Operating System Not Found


Works fine with drive image and ghost.

I shut down re-plugged in the old drive restarted like normal the
old drive is still the C drive.


Yeah, thats to be expected. You only get a mess when XP
manages to boot off the copy and gets completely confused by
the old drive being visible as well on the first boot after the copy.




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