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Drive Image 5.0 and Win XP

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adamkmiec

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I am going to purchase a new 80gb drive and then retire my existing 20gb drive as an MP3 drive. Anyhow I want to make sure I image things correctly. Can someone give me the blow by blow as to how to do this correctly?

To my knowledge I should be doing the following:

1. Attach the 80gb drive as Primary Slave.
2. Run Drive Image Dos.
3. Image by current C: Drive to the new 80gb now D: Drive.
4. Shut down computer.
5. Make the 80GB drive now the Primary Master.
6. Boot up.

I have heard people needing to run the Windows XP Repair and the repair the master boot record. Is this something I would need to do?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
You should have no problem, if you do though have a Win9x boot disk ready. Boot with it and run FDISK /MBR, remove floppy and reboot system.

Here's a little more info:

This problem can occur if your Windows 2000/XP boot partition drive letter does not match the drive letter assigned during the initial Windows 2000/XP Setup. Windows 2000/XP maintains a record of drive letters in a registry based database and re-assigns drive letters based on Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) recorded for each volume. Should the volume GUID change or be duplicated (by hard drive cloning software), the original drive letter may not be re-assigned to the boot volume.

This may also occur if you break a system/boot mirror, and then attempt to boot to the old shadow drive if the original primary drive is missing or inaccessible. This is because the volume GUID for the shadow drive is different than that of the original primary drive and does not get the same drive letter assigned.

With only the system/boot drive in the system, or powered on, boot to a DOS or Windows 9X Start-up diskette that contains fdisk.exe and run the following command:
FDISK /MBR
This re-writes the Master Boot Record and erase the disk signature associated with volume GUID. Windows 2000 should assign default drive letters and allow you logon.
 
1. Attach the 80gb drive as Primary Slave.
2. Run Drive Image Dos.
3. Image by current C: Drive to the new 80gb now D: Drive.
4. Shut down computer.
5. Make the 80GB drive now the Primary Master.
6. Boot up with Win9x floppy (or any bootable floppy with FDISK) and run FDISK /MBR.
7. Remove floppy and restart.
 
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