Win2000: How to replace PATA C-Drive with SATA?

[MplsBob]

I would like to replace my parallel ATA C-Drive with a SATA drive.

I have tired everything I can think of in Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>DiskManagement

It just plain won't let me remove or reassign the C-Drive that is the current boot drive.

I have copied the current C-Drive to the SATA Drive (currently H: ) and am all ready to go except for this one monumental problem: the software won't let me do it.

Help! There has to be a way to accomplish this relatively simple task.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this.

 

[Matthias99]

Use software like Norton Ghost to make an image of the drive, then copy the image onto another drive (if you have both drives in the system at once, you can just copy straight from one to the other). You can't just 'drag and drop' the contents of the C drive to another drive; you won't get the registry, MBR, and other low-level things set up properly.

Once you do that, have your system boot from the SATA drive instead, and it will magically become drive "C". Windows won't even know anything happened.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Use software like Norton Ghost to make an image of the drive, then copy the image onto another drive (if you have both drives in the system at once, you can just copy straight from one to the other). You can't just 'drag and drop' the contents of the C drive to another drive; you won't get the registry, MBR, and other low-level things set up properly.

Once you do that, have your system boot from the SATA drive instead, and it will magically become drive "C". Windows won't even know anything happened.

Have you done this before?
I have twice. It won't magically become drive "C".
The drive letters will stay the same.

I'm starting to think the only way to do this is do the clone, and then do a repair on the windows installation on the clone drive.

 

[TGS]

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[timswim78]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Use software like Norton Ghost to make an image of the drive, then copy the image onto another drive (if you have both drives in the system at once, you can just copy straight from one to the other). You can't just 'drag and drop' the contents of the C drive to another drive; you won't get the registry, MBR, and other low-level things set up properly.

Once you do that, have your system boot from the SATA drive instead, and it will magically become drive "C". Windows won't even know anything happened.

This worked for me also. However, before you do this, you MUST make sure that the SATA drivers for your system have been installed. If they are not installed, you will get errors when you try to boot.

 

[Abzstrak]

load the SATA drivers, then boot into linux (knoppix or the like) and dd the drive contents over, then remove the the old drive and your good