[resolved]Problem with upgrading hard drive.

gcurley · 06-03-2007, 10:57 AM

I'm trying to upgrade to a newer bigger HD. I used Norton Ghost to copy the entire drive.
The I went into bios and gave it a new hard disk boot hard disk boot priority. New drive then old drive. At first I thought it went smooth until I checked the properties of C:. Same old drive. So I unplugged the old drive and tried again. Windows hangs up on the blue screen, not a BSOD, but the one with the little XP logo that usually says Windows is starting.
A couple of questions.
First, Ghost wanted to know if I wanted to copy the MBR which I did. Should I have?
I did check the block for "set the drive to active"
I'm leaning towards reformatting the new drive and trying it again using Paragon partition manager which says it does the same thing.
One last question. I assume Windows will assign C: to which ever drive it boots from?
Thanks for any suggestions.
George

dai · 06-03-2007, 01:43 PM

most of the hard drive makers have a utility in their d/load section to copy the old drive across to the new one

gcurley · 06-04-2007, 07:45 AM

Thanks,
I got it done with Paragon Partition Magic. Allowed me to copy then partition as I needed.
Thanks Again
George

06-03-2007, 10:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
gcurley Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 9 OS: WinXP SP2	[resolved]Problem with upgrading hard drive. I'm trying to upgrade to a newer bigger HD. I used Norton Ghost to copy the entire drive. The I went into bios and gave it a new hard disk boot hard disk boot priority. New drive then old drive. At first I thought it went smooth until I checked the properties of C:. Same old drive. So I unplugged the old drive and tried again. Windows hangs up on the blue screen, not a BSOD, but the one with the little XP logo that usually says Windows is starting. A couple of questions. First, Ghost wanted to know if I wanted to copy the MBR which I did. Should I have? I did check the block for "set the drive to active" I'm leaning towards reformatting the new drive and trying it again using Paragon partition manager which says it does the same thing. One last question. I assume Windows will assign C: to which ever drive it boots from? Thanks for any suggestions. George

06-03-2007, 01:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Problem with upgrading hard drive. most of the hard drive makers have a utility in their d/load section to copy the old drive across to the new one __________________

06-04-2007, 07:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
gcurley Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 9 OS: WinXP SP2	Re: Problem with upgrading hard drive. Thanks, I got it done with Paragon Partition Magic. Allowed me to copy then partition as I needed. Thanks Again George