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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.