How to install IBM 45 GB drive as master next to WD slave?

[MegaBas]

Hi, I have a Pentium III pc with a ultra 66 PCI controller from Promise and a Western Digital 13 GB drive installed as master on that controller. Now I have bought a IBM Deskstar 45 GB ultra 100 drive and I want to install it on the same controller as my master without installing all my programs for the second time.

This is what I want:

IBM 45 GB --> 5 partitions: C, D, E, F, G;
Western Digital 13 GB --> 2 partitions: H, I;

Can I install the WD as a slave and the IBM as a master or do I have to install the WD as master on the second port of my pci ultra 66 controller?

Can you please explain it to me step by step? Can I use sys C: and then copy *.*?

 

[chemwiz]

I don't think you can have those partition letters, at least not the way they're listed. Your 1st drive's primary partition will be C, and the next drive's primary will be D. Then all the master drive's partitions get letter's, and finally the slave's partitions get letters. So you'll have IBM (C,E,F,G,H) and WD (D,I) when you're done.

 

[tippmann]

About the C: copy *.*

You will need to use a cloning utility to copy all the info from C: on WD to the IBM.

I use norton ghost, and I believe the norton ghost demo will work. Other wise the drive manufactors WD or IBM should have a free utility to do the same thing


Check out this thread
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&threadid=355035

 

[MegaBas]

Will the trial version of Drive Imago Pro do the job you think? So how do I do this? Do I start a program like Norton Ghost or Drive Imago Pro from a boot floppy? Do I first have to install, partition and format my new drive on IDE 0? And then attach my old WD drive as secondary master (for example)? I cannot boot from the WD anymore if I do that because it won't be the C drive then anymore. Or do I have to install my new drive, take care that I boot from the old C: then transfer everything to my new drive and then switch IDE cables and activate the primary partition of my new drive? Will the new drive then have the letter C, and my old drive D?

 

[chemwiz]

The order they're installed in is the key to the drive letters. You can either fdisk the new drive and assign the partition sizes you want for each one, or use a utility to copy the data over. If you use fdisk, you have to format each partition too. With Ghost or Drive Image it'll go a lot faster, but I'm not sure Ghost lets you choose the sizes you want. Drive Image Pro prompts you, asking if you want to keep it proportional, or set a specific size.

 

[MegaBas]

I have installed my new IBM disk as primary master with one primary partition and an extended partition with 5 logical drives. I have installed my old WD disk as secondary master with one primary edition and two logical drives. Like this:

IBM drive C, E, F, G, H, I;
WDC drive D, J, K;

I think the C drive is the activated partition. Right now, my system won't boot because Windows 98 is installed on my D drive (old C drive). What should I do next to copy my entire D drive (all files) to C and to make it the boot drive? I have a trial version of Drive Image Pro. I cannot boot in Windows so I probably cannot use a shareware program like xxcopy which you have to start from a Dos box within Windows.

 

[chemwiz]

Either that, or make the WD the primary again, boot into windows, and find the win386.swp file. You can just copy everything over with explorer (if it's in the root dir, select it then hit EDIT/INVERT SELECTION), right click, copy and paste to the d: drive. The other partitions won't have the swap file, so you can just copy those. Make sure you have "view all files" in Explore, though, or it won't copy the hidden ones. You might to use fdisk to make the partition active when you switch them back, too. Make sure you have a bbot floppy with fdisk and sys.com on it.

 

[MegaBas]

Ok I will do that, but do I have to make my new drive bootable first before I copy all files to it? How do I do that? With the command Sys C:?

 

[overmars]

If the trial version of Drive Image Pro doesn't work, your other alternative could be to use Image Cast IC3.

IC3 demo

It's basically the same prog as drive image or ghost

 

[MegaBas]

It worked !!! I used xxcopy.exe.....it looks like all is working now.. Thank you very much !!!