Problems setting up new HD. Help quick.

[BoomAM]

Hi.
I just brought a new HD. A Maxtor 120GB w/ 8mb cache.
Im trying to use MaxBlast3 to move my old windows partition to a new partition ive created on the 120GB. But it wont do it for some reason, it keeps saying it cant copy the files.
Which is quite annoying.

Now, is there any other, free, software that`ll allow me to do an exact duplicate of my old windows partition on my new HD?
And is there really any significant speed difference, in windows, in moving it from a 7200RPM drive with 2mb cache, to one with 8mb cache?

Thanks in advance.

 

[redhatlinux]

Post the exact msg that the Maxblast software gives. Is it complaining about your old drive or the new drive. What windows version is on the old and how are the partitions formatted, FAT 32, NTFS ??

 

[thorin]

"And is there really any significant speed difference, in windows, in moving it from a 7200RPM drive with 2mb cache, to one with 8mb cache?"

About the same as moving from a 5400rpm drive to a 7200rpm drive.

Thorin

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: thorin
About the same as moving from a 5400rpm drive to a 7200rpm drive.

Dam. I was hoping you wernt going to say that.
I was going to give up and just wait till i next re-install windows.
Can you point me towards some articles/reviews backing this up please. Thanks.

Both drives are maxtors. Both new models, one 40gb, one 120gb.
Both partitions (to and from) are 20gb in size, and both formatted with NTFS.

I did manage to get MaxBlast3 to complete the transfer (after 8 hours!), but when i went to boot off it, it said "cannot boot, load system disk and press enter".

I am heavily considering just setting it up as a slave drive for now. To install games and to DL to. Freeing up loads of space on the windows drive in the process. Its not like windows is slow to load anyway. It`d help my game load times though with having my games on it!
I suppose i could assign a 2gb partition on the new drive to the windows swapfile couldnt i? That help peformance a bit would`nt it?

 

[JC]

when i went to boot off it, it said "cannot boot, load system disk and press enter".

Check to see if your Windows boot partition is active.


JC

 

[MasterFlash]

Did it copy the files over, and then say that it can't boot? If so it's probably a problem with the Boot.INI file. You could try to disconnect the old drive, do a boot into Safe Mode, go to Run & type Msconfig, click the Boot.ini tab, and click "check all boot paths". Something to try, anyway... I had a problem like this once.

 

[BoomAM]

I "aquired" partition magic, and used that. almost flawless copy.
Windows boots off it, but ive just noticed that some functions in windows, such as system restore, dont work, ie; crash.
Is there a way to fix that?
Prehaps re-install SP1 ?

 

[BoomAM]

Does`nt matter now.
I decided to do the mother of all fixes for windows. Re-Install. LOL.
I just set it to re-install, then installed SP1 off my backup drive, then DLed all 32 updates. Problem fixed.