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Subject: Re: OT--Need computer help

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:27:34 10/17/01

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On October 16, 2001 at 21:09:48, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello anybody,
>I would like to know what is the BEST way to transfer everything on my C: drive
>to a new D: drive so I can remove the C: drive and then use the D: drive only
>from now on. ?? C drive is 8GB and D: drive is 40GB. Using win98.
>Please e-mail:
>jimtwalker@aol.com
>
>Sorry for off topic but this is the only forum I check into.


I have done this a few times but not very recently.  It's something you do with
GREAT delicacy and care.

I'd use a tool such as Ghost (by Norton) or Drive Image to clone the C: drive to
the other drive.  It should result in an exact duplicate.  Then I'd power off,
remove the C: drive, and change the jumpers as necessary to make the other drive
the new "first-seen" drive (master versus slave, perhaps, or which IDE chain
it's on).  Then, in theory, just start the machine and the former D: should now
be C: with identical contents as the prior C:.

[PS: On a Macintosh, there has never been drive letters, just names.  You can
boot off any drive (hard drive, zip, CD-ROM, whatever) at any time and you can
have hundreds of different drives and partitions at one time.  You just tell it
which one to boot from.  That is sanity.  The DOS way, still used after 20
years, is insanity.]



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