"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Nehmo Sergheyev wrote in message
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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.