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My hd recently crashed. While waiting for the new one to arrive, I used the
recovery
cd and set up an old drive. I have downloaded all the updates and installed
SP2 and now want to clone it to the new drive. Old drive is maxtor, new is
WD. I muddled through partitioning and formatting the new drive, but how do
you xfr the system files to make it bootable ? There is no SYS command as
there was in DOS or previous Windows OS's. Also, I installed MaxBlast & WD's
tool and both run fine
with the Maxtor connected, but with both drives connected, both programs crash
when started. I tried a REPAIR install using fixmbr and fixboot and got the
drive to boot, but when I used BACKUP to restore a backup of the maxtor, the
new drive refuses to boot saying there are missing files. What a PAIN !!!
My hd recently crashed. While waiting for the new one to arrive, I used the
recovery
cd and set up an old drive. I have downloaded all the updates and installed
SP2 and now want to clone it to the new drive. Old drive is maxtor, new is
WD. I muddled through partitioning and formatting the new drive, but how do
you xfr the system files to make it bootable ? There is no SYS command as
there was in DOS or previous Windows OS's. Also, I installed MaxBlast & WD's
tool and both run fine
with the Maxtor connected, but with both drives connected, both programs crash
when started. I tried a REPAIR install using fixmbr and fixboot and got the
drive to boot, but when I used BACKUP to restore a backup of the maxtor, the
new drive refuses to boot saying there are missing files. What a PAIN !!!