Move OS to SATA drive?

Kenny · Guest

XP/SP2 and programs on C: drive, there are also 2 partitions D: & E: on the
same IDE drive on Primary IDE channel.
I have added a 250GB SATA drive partitioned into W: & X:.
Would like to move OS and programs from C: to the W: partition on the SATA
drive.
I have Acronis True Image v10 and have gone through the help files but I can
only see how to clone the whole drive to another whole drive, not clone the
active partition only to another partition.
Am I missing something here?
Any advice appreciated.

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Kenny Cargill

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Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Art · Guest

Kenny wrote:

Bob Harris · Guest

I have True Image 8, but the concepts are probably similar.

"clone", by definition, means a total copy of one drive to another, usually to a larger drive. In cloning the master boot record is also copied. After cloning one must remove the old drive, else ther will be two C:\ partitions, and that will confuse the PC. After the PC has been rebooted at least once, and recognizes the new drive and its partitions, then the old drive can be erased (using a bootable CD with erasing tools (e.g., DELPART from XP recovery console) while attached inside the PC, or by placing it in a USB enclosure and attaching to the PC while in XP). Once erased, the drive could be reinstalled, repartitoned, reformatted, and reused.

"image", by defintion, means a copy of one or more partitions. It used to mean without the master boot record, but I believe that may also be copied in True Image verison 10; it is not in version 8. An image is usually intended to be restored to the same hard drive, same parition. However, it can be restored to a new hard drive, arbitrary partition. BUT, be careful, older operating systems (e.g., 95/98/ME) had to be on the first partition on the primary hard drive. XP is more flexible, BUT must have certain key files on that first partition of the primary hard drive:

ntdetect.com

ntldr

boot.ini

And, BOOT.INI must point to where XP is installed.

Thus, >>in theory<<, you could write an image of C:\ to somewhere else (not C:, not W:, maybe external USB drive), then resotre it to W:\. Then change BOOT.INI to point to W:\WINDOWS. Of course, BOOT.INI does not actual refer to drive letters. Instead it looks like this:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition"

Where, "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)", means first parition on zeroth hard drive (and not a raid configuration), also known as C:\ on my PC.

Tamiami · Guest

Kenny wrote:

DL · Guest

If you do that the registry will still contain pointers to C so a whole raft
of things wont work untill you reinstall them on W.
If you are simply wishing to move to make use of a larger hd, and maybe
faster, then you would be better off following the cloning instructions.
Your W will then become C
(If you have any apps installed on the other partitions they will all have
to be reinstalled)
You might also have to make adjustments in the Bios and or the sata
controler bios, to enable boot from sata.
It depends on your mobo/chipset

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Poprivet` · Guest

OP: Stick with the TI you have. IT's capable and will
fille the bill. Don't add more confusion by adding a
new app; it's counterproductive when you already have
it.

You probably want the "clone" feature. Clone to the
drive W, make drive C a non-existing letter, and rename
W to C. If your boot drive isn't C it'll create
confusion later on, down the line. Other than possibly
drive size, nothing to swtich in CMOS that way either.

HTH

Pop`

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Donald L McDaniel · Guest

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Kenny · Guest

Thanks for all the replies. The problem is that I can clone OS from drive to
drive but not partition to partition.

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DL · Guest

Yes you can, a partition is just another 'virtual' drive
But your apparant problem is wishing to change the boot drive to W (I
believe)

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