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The point I was trying to make is that you should not allow the
cloned disk to be connected at the same time as the original
disk, because you might end up with confused drive letters.
Win2000 has a tendency to sniff out all Win2000 installations
present in a system; if they are clones of each other then Windows
might change some references in its registry from drive C: to drive
E: (for example). This could damage both installation permanently.
If you have any data disks in your system then they are irrelevant
within this particular issue.
As to being "chauvenistic": I confess that I do no know what you
mean. My dictionary defines "chauvinistic" as "aggressive or fanatical
patriotism; enthusiastic devotion to a cause; smug irrational belief in
the superiority of one's own race". This thread does not and will not
deal in patriotism, pet causes or race issues. If you felt that my reply
was "condescending" then I apologise - the reply was meant to
encourage you to re-read what I had written previously.
"WoofWoof" <oftenbark@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:417AFD37.C8DD7DFC@hotmail.com...
> Well ... as I have pointed out, there are a total of three drives
> involved and there will always be two of those connected at the same
> time so the statement '"both" disks installed ' is ambiguous to me.
>
> In any event you have chosen to repeat your earlier statement (which
> I already said I didn't understand) rather than respond in the terms
> that I explained my difficulty which appears (to me) a little
> chauvenistic. I hadn't come across that from MVP's here before. Thanks
> anyway for trying to help.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> > I think that this statement is abundantly clear: "After cloning, make
> > sure that you never boot the machine with both disks installed."
> >
> > "WoofWoof" <oftenbark@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:417A81A5.F074876C@hotmail.com...
> > > This talk of the second drive is confusing me a bit .... I assume you
> > > mean don't have both the old and new boot drives installed at the same
> > > time? There are currently two drives in the system and I want to end
> > > up that way so I'd still have a "second drive"
> > >
> > > To clarify a little more, here's what I visualise doing (logistics
> > > such as drive jumper settings powering down between hardware changes
> > > etc are assumed):
> > >
> > > 1. If I use Partition Magic
> > >
> > > - remove the current drive-2 (non-boot) and replace it with the new
> > > drive.
> > > - use PM to make a clone of the boot partition from drive-1 to the new
> > > drive.
> > > - replace drive-1 with the new drive and re-connect orginal drive-2
> > >
> > >
> > > 2. If I use Ghost
> > >
> > > - with the original drive 1 and 2 configuration, make a backup of the
> > > drive-1 boot partition on drive-2 (I believe I can make room for
> > > that).
> > > - replace drive-1 with the new drive
> > > - use ghost to restore the partition image from drive-2
> > >
> > >
> > > It occurs to me that there might be a third possibility (which
> > > wouldn't need as much space) ... would this work? :
> > >
> > > 3. Using Ghost
> > >
> > > - with the original drive 1&2 configuration make a *file* backup from
> > > the drive-1 boot partition to drive-2
> > > - replace drive-1 with the new drive and create a new ntfs partition
> > > (PM?)
> > > - use ghost to restore the files from drive 2
> > > - anything else? MBR?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > PQMagic 8 should do the trick. After cloning, make sure that
> > > > you never boot the machine with both disks installed. If you
> > > > do then you might wreck both installations, as your drive letters
> > > > could get very confused.
> > >
> > >
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