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June 28, 2006 at 06:10 PM
mfennis

Move Clone Win XP partition D to a bootable C

by mfennis . Updated 20 years ago

Hi

I have a single 160GB drive PC that came with Windows XP Home as drive C: In order to run Visual Studio.NET 2003 and IIS I later added Windows XP Professional SP2 as partition D:

I now wish Windows XP Professional SP2 (partition D:) to become my one and only master boot Drive C: and delete the original drive C:

How can I delete Windows XP home (drive C:) and move (or clone to another disk), partition D to become a bootable drive C: without starting from a clean install.

I have used both Norton Ghost v8 & v9 and Drive Image v5.3 to clone partition D: to the new hard drive but on rebooting with the new disk as master (no other drives fitted) the PC will not boot ?Invalid system disk? even after Fdisk /mbr or BootFix.

The only success I have had is to clone both partitions C: & D: to a new disk.

cheers

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