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Problem replacing second HDD in W2K

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hmsrolst

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I am using a second HDD as a backup drive on my W2K installation. It's an older Maxtor that I'd like to replace with a Barracuda IV for speed and quiet. I've tried both just removing the old one and sticking in the new one, and I've tried deleting the partition first through disk managment. In either case I get unrecoverable registry errors, and end up having to recover my W2K installation from an image. Should I first remove it in Device Manager? If anyone can tell me the correct way to do this, I'd appreciate it.
 
I would delete volume in disk management, then delete from device manager, shut down and install the drive. Then if you get in initialize and format with disk management. I would think that should work unless you have a bad drive itself.
 
I don't want to delete the logical partition in disk management because it says I'll lose all the data. If I remove the drive in device manager, W2K will no longer work. Any other way to do this?
 
Might be a drive lettering issue. The fix would depend on exactly how your current drives are partitioned, where the drives are located on IDE cables, where Primary DOS and logical drives are located, where boot partition and w2k are located, and what changes occur when you remove the old drive, etc.
 
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