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*Exor*

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I have two drives on an NT machine, a C and a D. Two separate drives, not partitions. C is the boot drive, can someone suggest the easiest way to copy the entire C drive to the D drive, making the D drive bootable when I remove C and have D as the primary master.

Also, the D drive is 40gig, in one partition, I know NT used to have a limitation on the primary partition, which I think was somewhere less than 10gig. Is it true this is fixed with service pack 6 (which my install has)?
 
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Scouse

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Jeesus Exor old chap. Have you never visited the tech forum? :)

so, basically, you want a clone of your C: drive on your D: drive right?

Use Ghost :)
 
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*Exor*

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I shoulda said really....Ghost isn't playing ball so I need something else.

And why post in a forum that less people use?
 
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Penry

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you can have problems if the boot partition is greater that erm 7.8Gb ish?? (booting after applying patches etc) - NT will still work with bigger boot prtitions - and if it ever doesn't boot cause it cant find the files in the right part of the drive - using a win2K boot disk will get you in anyway.
 
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Scouse

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And why post in a forum that less people use?
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Because most of the muppets here won't have a clue about NT.

If you want tech support you'd go to the forum where knowledgeable users tend to frequent?

Just a shot in the dark there m8 :p
 
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Testin da Cable

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exor, it can't be done.....in the way you want.



the closest I can think would be to use the NT diskadministrator to create a partition on your D that is the same size as your C. Next step is to tell NT via the diskadmin that the partition on the drive that used to be D is a mirror of C. Wait till the mirror has fully sync'd then take the system down. Use a floppy with fdisk to set the boot-flag on "D" to 1, or "on" if you will and C to null.



may work, prolly not. better than nothing tho ;)

edit:// or you could indeed use a so called "third party product". whatever way you choose, the data on D will be lost so make a backup first heh
 
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*Exor*

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Thanx for the suggestions chaps.

It's now been made possible to keep both drives in :)
 
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Summo

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Bah! Establishing disk mirroring as TdC suggested would be the easiest way. Once yer C: drive is mirrored, break the mirror and just boot from (what used to be) your D: drive.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE SURE YOU MODIFY THE BOOT.INI TO POINT TO THE SECOND DRIVE, THOUGH!
 
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