Hello James Button
On 09-05-2006 21:48:18 you wrote:
> You could possibly edit the partition allocation tables
> But it's a job for a knowledgeable, and practiced technical
>
> My approach would be to:
> 1) Assuming that you have access to the original OS disk, and the
> new drive's C: (OS) partition is the first one on the drive:
>
> Delete the new c: partition,
> Move the start point of the extended partition up to the beginning
> of the d: partition
> Copy the old C: partition to the new drive as a Primary partition
>
> That will probably require you to have a working system with an OS
> on a different drive
>
> Check that you can boot from the new partition
>
> You could consider if you need the swapfile on a separate
> partition, or would an appropriately sized permanent one on the OS
> partition be better - it would probably be faster
>
> Would you benefit from having a mini-OS (DOS?) with NTFS and
> partition management/copy/restore facilities) partition to use to
> do maintenance on your main OS partition
I do appreciate your comments and I have been struggling to solve this problem
that has been aggravated by a problem with my mainboard that lost the ability
to boot directly to any device. Sounds strange, but the only way I can boot is
by calling the MB's boot selector during startup and there select Floppy, HD or
CD.
I ended up with a "new" HD and was able to use Acronis to copy the 4 partitions
correctly this time, but I also learned that you can't copi a primary active
SATA partition to a SATA HD and expect to be able to boot from it. So I said to
myself, well , I'll just repair the Windows installation and all should be
well, but the MB problem will not allow permit that because the sick MB can't
handle the reboots during installation.
I guess I can install Acronis boot manager on the SATA drive and select to boot
from the PATA.
Jim, my hard disks are partioned like this: C.\Windows system, D:\Swap, E:\Data
and F:\Original program files.
I have in the past had a DOS partition but I never found any use for it because
I always had another HD installed with a small WinXP system that I could use to
gain access to the regular system in case of problems.
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Mo
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