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How to copy an entire partition under Win2000

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ctowle

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I currently am running Win2000 Pro and my primary fixed disk is on the IDE chain. I have everything just the way that I want it.

I recently purchased a SCSI HD and I want to use this drive as my main drive, but I DO NOT want to reinstall the OS.

My question is:

How do I copy the entire partition over from the IDE drive to the SCSI drive? After this, I plan on removing the IDE drive and using it somewhere else.

I have Partition Magic 5.0, but that does not support Win2000.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
 
Let us know if that works, cuz win2000 like nt are very hardware sensitive. I once remove the harddrive from one pc and put it to another pc and it doesn't work and bluescreen on me. Especially all the settings on your win2000 are set for IDE, I don't think you can just copy the partition and dump it to the SCSI drive. Anyway, let us know how it work out.
 
I am doing it tonight. We shall see how it works.....

If I post later tonight, this is good...

If it not until tomorrow, this is bad and means that I had to reinstall the OS.
 
It does not work. It appears to copy the entire partition fine, but when you boot from the new drive after removing the old drive, it will not boot.

Oh well. I gues a reinstall is in order this weekend.

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions.
 
Try this:
after the partition copy, try and do a W2K recovery with the W2K CD. It's saved me a few times on ghosted W2K partitions.
 
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