Hard drive migration help

Published on July 27, 2004 By tjesterb In WinCustomize Talk

I recently got a new HDD. I hooked it up as a slave and used Drive Image 7.0 to copy my drive C to the E partition on the new drive using the app included to clone your drive, OS and all to a new one. I ed to make the E drive bootable, according to the directions, as well. I then switched the jumper on the new drive to the Master setting, hooked up the Master IDE cable to it and tried to boot up from the new drive. However that isn't working. I entered the BIOS and confirmed that it is recognizing the new drive as the Master. How do I boot from the new drive? I want to put the old drive in a USB case and use it as portable storage.

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tjesterb

on Aug 03, 2004

Success!...for the most part. I had to do a repair reinstall of Windows and then use Partition Magic to change all paths from C to F [letter of my new drive] Still a few tweaks to make to restore everything. Firefox won't run except in Safemode, even after uninstalling, removing registry keys, and reinstalling. I'm still looking through the Mozilla sites for a fix. Thanks Yrag, FUzzy,Jafo and others for the pointers. I'm still not sure Drive Image is all it claims, especially now that any support has to come from the Symantec site.

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