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moving boot image to another hard drive on the smae system...I think

  • 23-05-2007 11:47am
    #1
    stevejazzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭


    ok
    i've 2 hard drives in my htpc
    one is an eighty gig ide drive which contains the os (winmce)
    the other is an empty brand new 250 gig sata drive
    i want to get rid of the old drive altogether and just run the rig with the 250 gig drive? how do i move the boot image and contents of the 80 gig ide to the sata drive and make then that my boot drive?


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  • #2
    buildabong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭buildabong


    You will need to move your Master Boot Record aswell so a simple copy paste wont work!!!:

    Basically you can create an image of ur 80 and "copy" it onto the 250 using something like Ghost Image Software - google it.
    Not that difficult to use, you will need to make a boot disk.

    Or the long/painfull reinstall of Windows onto your new 250.

    Just remember to swop the HDD cables around or change the 250 to the master drive.


  • #3
    vir7ual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭vir7ual


    Ghost your old drive onto your new drive, plug out your old drive and leave everything else as it, whether or not the hard disk is on a slave cable wont matter once its the only hard drive in there.

    Ghost is your best option and if you have access to a floppy on the media center i can send you a floppy disk which will have the new disk up and running in about 20mins to 30mins. Very easy thing you're doing and wont take long


  • #4
    stevejazzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    why do i need the floppy drivers?
    once i ghost across the image and remove the ide drive won't the pc boot from the new drive?
    can you email those files?


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