I have XP SP2 as my operating system. I have a 20g as my c drive, and a 40g as my e drive. I purchased a 120g that I wanted to make my new e drive (keep all video, audio, etc. on e drive). Had no problems trasferring all of my e drive files to the new drive. I used my usb to ide cable and power supply. Now I want to take the former e drive, since it is bigger and newer than my current c drive and make it the new c drive. I borrowed a pavilion exactly like mine from a friend at work and cranked his up. I installed the 40g that I want to make my new c drive into the secondary pc as the slave. I uninstalled the drive from my computer, hooked it in to the secondary computer using the same usb to ide setup from tranferring the e drive. I can't get the pc to recognize my c drive that I'm wanting to transfer to the new hard drive. Any suggestions I have nero backup tools but I can't see how I can completely tranfer all of the c drive when it's powering the process.
Are you trying to make a direct copy of your 20g drive to your 40g drive? I don't know if that will happen. Reformat the 40g drive and reinstall windows. Hook it up to your PC and boot windows off that disk. (I guess I'm not fully understanding what you're trying to do?)
I took a little while and a few attempts but it worked. Yes I was trying to clone my boot hard drive (20g, 5400rpm) to a different drive (40g,7200rpm 4 years newer). I first used, on the advice of a friend, Ranish Partion Manager and booted with that. It cloned everything from the original drive to the destination drive just fine but when all was said and done the new 40g drive only registered as a 20g. Ranish wouldn't resize the partition in NTFS... or, I couldn't figure it out. I then sucessfully pulled it off using Norton Ghost. So I am now running a WD40 7200rpm as my boot drive and a WD120g 7200 as my secondary. Startup is faster, I can't wait to see if it makes a difference in encoding.
