Hard Drives:
hard drive A - 80 GB: 1 partition: C:/ (windows XP Professional OS)
hard drive B - 250 GB: 1 Partition: D:/ (storage files)
both NTFS
goal: to shrink D:/ partition to 170 GB and basically copy over the partition on the hard drive A to the new empty space on hard drive B. Then permanently removing hard drive A from the system while keeping the computer running normally as if nothing happened. Basically i want to get rid of hard drive A while keeping the system running normally with the OS on a different drive letter.
so far i have shrunk hard drive B without errors.
i tried just using GParted and copy/pasted the partition on drive A onto the empty space on drive B, successful.
When i disconnect drive A, and try to boot, the computer pops an error booting OS message.
i know i have to modify the MBR, so to save time researching, could someone tell me how to make the computer boot from drive B?
(i still have all the files intact on drive A)
hard drive A - 80 GB: 1 partition: C:/ (windows XP Professional OS)
hard drive B - 250 GB: 1 Partition: D:/ (storage files)
both NTFS
goal: to shrink D:/ partition to 170 GB and basically copy over the partition on the hard drive A to the new empty space on hard drive B. Then permanently removing hard drive A from the system while keeping the computer running normally as if nothing happened. Basically i want to get rid of hard drive A while keeping the system running normally with the OS on a different drive letter.
so far i have shrunk hard drive B without errors.
i tried just using GParted and copy/pasted the partition on drive A onto the empty space on drive B, successful.
When i disconnect drive A, and try to boot, the computer pops an error booting OS message.
i know i have to modify the MBR, so to save time researching, could someone tell me how to make the computer boot from drive B?
(i still have all the files intact on drive A)