Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:59:06 10/18/01
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On October 17, 2001 at 11:27:34, Roy Eassa wrote: >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.] Hello Roy, Thanks for the input. Since nobody gave me any help (except you) and I don't have Ghost I just did it manually. Took most of yesterday to copy the 8 Gigs. Everything seems to be running fine off the new H.D. I'm leaving the old 8 Gig drive connected for now in case I missed something but the computer boots off the new drive OK. Regards, Jim
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