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2nd HDD for Booting

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Brian Smith - 31 Dec 2003 22:23 GMT
My exisiting  #1 HDD (C:) is failing. The machine has a
2nd, identical HDD which is almost empty. How can I most
easily transfer everything to the 2nd HDD and make it the
bootable start-up drive?
Jeff Richards - 31 Dec 2003 23:26 GMT
Copy the files from the primary drive to the secondary drive.  You will have
to exclude win386.swp from the copy, but everything else will be fine - the
easiest way to do this is to assign the swap file to the second drive and
reboot, then delete the original swap file.  Make sure that hidden files are
visible so they get copied too.  Make a boot disk, swap the drives between
master and slave, boot to your boot disk and do SYS C:. If the new hard
drive still doesn't boot you may need to start FDISK and make the primary
partition active.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

> My exisiting  #1 HDD (C:) is failing. The machine has a
> 2nd, identical HDD which is almost empty. How can I most
> easily transfer everything to the 2nd HDD and make it the
> bootable start-up drive?
 
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