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How to copy data from one hard drive to another

  • 03-09-2005 12:55pm
    #1
    bush
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    I have a pc with windows 2000 thats got all messed up. What I want to do is get everything off the hard drive to another hard drive. I have windows xp on my pc, I tried putting the old hard drive in alongside as slave and presumed it would show up and I could copy everything over but it didnt, does anyone have any idea how to do this?


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  • #2
    Irishpimpdude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭Irishpimpdude


    ok it should show up sounds like your not setting it as slave... change the jumper on the back of the harddrive to slave :P hope that helps


  • #3
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Your Windows 2000 installation disk has a "recovery console" for rebuilding Windows when the worst happens.
    It can totally wipe the operating system on the disk and install a fresh copy of Windows 2000 over-the-top with full administrative access to all the data that was previously on the disk. Note: try to get SP4 onto the HDD, before you let it anywhere near the internet......

    Re: your current problem- I'd suggest putting it as the sole drive on the secondary IDE channel, booting into XP and then assigning it a drive letter with computer manager.
    As a bootable volume, while the operating systme may be able to see it, its entirely possible that it may not be assigned a drive letter....... Would I be correct in assuming its an NTFS volume, with either a primary or an extended partition? I don't have XP myself- but in the control panel you should have a tool the equivalent of "Computer Manager" in Windows 2000- in disk management simply assign the next available drive letter to the device.

    Best of luck.

    Shane


  • #4
    bush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    Your right I had the jumper settings wrong, I took off the jumper altogether and it worked. Thanks


  • #5
    Irishpimpdude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭Irishpimpdude


    i did that a couple times then i was like oh yea the jumper (DuH) :) but i wouldnt make that mistake again :) glad that helped anyways good luck !!


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