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It should be so simple: I need more hard space!

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by garbagio

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I have what I at first thought was going to be a simple fix but instead, I now find myself in a real pickle.

I was handed a PC that had had too many aps added to it over time and was now out of hard drive space. The PC is running XP Pro, has 1 GB ram but is hobbled with a 30 GB hard drive. We have plenty of spare 200 GB drives so I dropped one in (Drive D) and then XCOPY'd everything from C to D.

The last step, I thought, was to reboot and hit the DEL key to enter the BIOS. Accessing the boot device section, I located the entry set to IDE-0 and changed it to IDE-1 (I set the next entry to IDE-0 just to be safe).

Well, you guessed it. It was too easy to work. Everything I copied is there but it just won't boot from D.

Can you help me out of this? I do not want to ask them to install all of their applications from scratch. FYI: I also have a complete backup of C on an external USB 250 GB drive.

Thanks

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by tintoman

like most things, easy when you know how,
The previous post is correct, you do need a drive imaging tool to do this successfully, personally I use Norton Ghost because it gives me very few problems and will boot with USB support.
So image your old drive, then install the image on anew larger drive, make sure to resize the disk as well otherwise you will finish up with 2 partitions on your new drive, also set the new drive active for booting during the copy process and copy the drive signature as well (all options in Ghost 12)
Then start your machine from the new drive (do not fiddle with the cmos settings there is no need as long as you connect your new drive exactly as you connected the old one.

by garbagio

I have used Ghost, but it was a long time ago, when it had far more restrictions then it does now.

Thanks once again.

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