Migrate OS to secondary Local Hard Drive

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"Brook" <Brook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> good day...
>
> I am wanting to upgrade my primary hard drive, and want to use my
current
> secondary hard drive as my primary and replace my secondary. I would
prefer
> not to have much down time.
>
> Is there a way that I can install WIN2K on my secondary hard drive have
> have the system boot from it so that I can format and install a new
primary
> drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brook
>

You can use a third-party imaging product such as DriveImage (PQMagic)
or TrueImage (Acronis) to move your existing installation to a different
drive.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup (More info?)

I would not describe your action as a "migration" - it appears to be
a straightforward disk cloning operation. My preferred method goes
like this:
1. Install Acronis TrueImage.
2. Allow TrueImage to burn an Emergency CD.
3. Boot the machine with this CD.
4. Create an image file of drive C:. You need a separate
partition to park the image file - it must not reside on the
source or the target partition.
5. Restore the image file to the second disk.
6. Remove the first disk.
7. Make the second disk the primary master disk.
8. Reboot. Windows should boot as before.


"Brook" <Brook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you for the response,
>
> Do you know of any articles that would assist me with the migration?
>
> Brook
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> >
> > "Brook" <Brook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news564DC5C-4E92-4FD9-A050-622C6F362B64@microsoft.com...
> > > good day...
> > >
> > > I am wanting to upgrade my primary hard drive, and want to use my
> > current
> > > secondary hard drive as my primary and replace my secondary. I would
> > prefer
> > > not to have much down time.
> > >
> > > Is there a way that I can install WIN2K on my secondary hard drive
have
> > > have the system boot from it so that I can format and install a new
> > primary
> > > drive?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brook
> > >
> >
> > You can use a third-party imaging product such as DriveImage (PQMagic)
> > or TrueImage (Acronis) to move your existing installation to a different
> > drive.
> >
> >
> >