After cloning HD, new hard drive show up as G: and H: (two partitions)

DZip

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After cloning HD, new hard drive shows up as G: and H: (two partitions). I need to make this new drive bootable. Originaly set up as dual boot with W98 on C: and XPPro on D:. I want to keep the dual boot option. The drives are set up as cable select. Do I need to make them master and slave, then clone the partitions, then change the jumpers so the new drive is master and old one is slave? There must be a way to upgrade a small hard drive to a larger one in XPPro without reinstalling.

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Netopia

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Have you removed the other hard drives? You may need to reclone, but then take out the other drives BEFORE booting into Windows.

Joe
 

Smilin

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I don't have time for a lengthy explanation but I'll point you in the right direction.

When you were running before your registry was thoroughly populated with references to your C: and D: drives so getting these letters back in place will probably solve tons of issues for you.

What you need to do is edit your mounted devices key. Search the MS KB for "mounteddevices" and it should point you to a couple KBs. there are some in particular about not being able to boot after adding a drive, or having a drive letter shift that should get you going.

note: mountedevices is outside the control sets so if you munge it you won't be able to lastknowngood your way out of trouble. if you are comfy making a backup of the registry from recovery console, do that then just whack all but the default entry in mounted devices and it will rebuild based on standard setup ordering rules (very likely to put things the way you expect).