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Advise on moving widows to a different drive

  • 12-10-2006 3:16pm
    #1
    jeffred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭


    Hi, my hard drive is close to failing and I want to replace it with a new drive. My machine currently has two pata drives and the drive with the operating system is failing. I want to replace this with a Sata drive and I'm wondering is there an easy way of moving the operating system on to this drive then removing the old drive. Currently the operating system (xp pro) is on drive c:, so I want to mirror this and then remove the physical drive and copy this on to the new SATA drive and have this as drive C:.

    Is this just wishful thinking on my part ? or is there another way other than reinstalling windows and all my programs again?


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    some drives come with a utility from the drive manufacturer to do this

    microsoft don't support mirroring in workstation/pro, for that you are supposed to buy server. some motherboards / controllers will do this in hardware but IIRC only if both drives are IDE or SATA not a mix

    since the new drive is SATA you would have to sort out drivers for it, if you just cloned you might get a stop 000000007 boot device inaccessible


  • #3
    jeffred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭jeffred


    Thanks Capt,

    Its a OEM drive therefore no utilities, I could move the system to my other PATA drive and the files on that to the SATA. Then move it to drive0 position or bite the bullet and reinstall all.


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