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Clone Disk + Change Drive assignation

  • 27-09-2003 05:40PM
    #1
    Butch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭


    Hi,

    I will appreciate tips on the following:

    Current Situation
    PC PII/266, 128Mb, 2 x HDD 4Gb, 2 CD Drives, OS is W2K Professional
    C: is the boot drive, FAT32. Scratch disk
    D: is CD-R
    E: is CD-RW
    F: is the W2K disk. FAT32 Everything is installed here.

    Problem

    Need to remove 1 hard disk (the scratch one, which is the boot disk), hence moving all my installation from F: to C:

    Moving my second disk to be the primary and making it bootable is the easiest, but I need suggestions for the following:
    1. Registry mass search-and-replace "F:" to "C:"
    2. Shortcuts massive search-and-replace "F:" to "C:"
    Any good idea? Which program(s) would do that - ideally freeware or shareware.

    Thanks,
    Butch


Comments

  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    M$ OS's are not designed to be moved around - you are supposed to reinstall - it's copy protection or poor boot flexability - take your pick.

    You can reassign drive letters - move C: to H: or somesuch first.
    Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management..
    (No idea how your apps or OS will react to this. )
    =====================================

    You can use utils like Ghost (not free) / partimage (Linux) to clone partitions - but 2K / XP will blue screen unless you use sysprep first (sysprep means you have to enter the serial no again.)
    NT can only be cloned to PC's with the same IDE controller -

    for 95/98/ME you could use seagates utils (but it looks for a seagate HDD so won't work unless at least one of the drives is this brand - but it can go through the reg)

    You will need to make the partition active and make the system files bootable - for 2k it might mean runnign repair or doing a dummy reinstall to a temporary folder - when it reboots - you cancel the install...


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