Akashio wrote:I want to transfer all the data from my D Drive to to new SATA drive and I then I want to transfer all the data from my C drive to the D Drive. Then, the old D Drive would become the new C drive and the SATA drive would become the D drive slave.
How can I do that?
the Black Monarch wrote:For the computer to consider them "installed," yes. For them to work, no.
Corran Productions wrote:Partition Magic 8 is the best tool I've every used for such a problem. It retails for about 60-70 bucks.
I recently, durring all of my upgrading, took the c: drive from my loud, obnoxious, 5400rpm 20 gig hard drive and using partition magic copied the partition to a new 7200 rpm 60 gig drive.
What I did.
Start up partition magic
- Copy partition c: to new drive. (There has to be enough unallocated space to do this on the new drive. If you allready have it installed and formated, which you should, you can resize the partition on it to make room for the new partition, preferabally at the begining of the drive.)
- Change drive letter of old partition to something other than what it is now.
- Change drive letter of the new copy of the partition to the old one.
- Apply the changes. It will ask you if you want to use drive mapper to compensate for the drive letter changes. Select no.
- The computer will then restart and durring the startup process it will begin start applying the changes.
- Once it is totally finished turn of the computer.
- Remove the old hard drive and replace it with the new one. Make sure the jumper settings are correct and startup the computer.
the Black Monarch wrote:See now, you wouldn't have this problem if you'd followed MY advice, because my advice involved reinstalling the OS
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