HELP! WINXP PRO, Converting slave to master Drive

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buy a new larger hard drive.

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"Don" <wealthgenerator2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> PLease help anyone! I'm running windows XP Pro and have a small 10 gig
> C drive which is always getting full due to default instalations of
> programs. Unable to back up those large programs onto cd's . I also
> have a slave drive which is 60 gig and has been partitioned as 29.5
> and 26.5 approx, Since I need to make slave new c drive I used xxcopy
> (freeware version) and cloned D section to e (second half) of my 60
> gig drive. My plan was to clone C to the front D; section and then
> clean the former C drive and change ribbons and jumpers so 60 gig
> becomes my new boot drive with some space.And old C becomes a slave
> drive. Cloning from D to e appears fine; .. now wish to wipe off info
> at front of second partitioned drive to place c drive programs
> including hidden files and years of personal files. If I run fdisk I
> think I'll lose my e drive files. I used the Start, run, cmd format
> asks for drive volume and then warns as per usual then is unable to
> dismount D drive? why I closed as many handles as possible via three
> finger salute then individually selecting posessess and closing them.
> then retrying to format the drive via the cmd line format comand with
> the /x switch
> My end goal is to have bootable C on my larger drive without losing
> any functions, programs, or filesif I do this I won't have to change
> regisrty addresses as the programs on C will be on the new assigned C
> when I reboot with slave + master jumper traded on hds, and ribbon's
> traded then my old C + D will be on the new assigned C + D so expect
> no problems if I can transfer these locations.
> ALL HELP APPRECIATED THANKS AGAIN
> .

[Thomas Wendell]

XXCOPY won't pay this bill....

Go to second HD mafg's homepage and look for utility to clone existing drive
to the new bigger drive... (they usually have such a program).

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"Don" <wealthgenerator2003@yahoo.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:dad0b95a.0307171218.7951fac0@posting.google.c om...

> PLease help anyone! I'm running windows XP Pro and have a small 10 gig
> C drive which is always getting full due to default instalations of
> programs. Unable to back up those large programs onto cd's . I also
> have a slave drive which is 60 gig and has been partitioned as 29.5
> and 26.5 approx, Since I need to make slave new c drive I used xxcopy
> (freeware version) and cloned D section to e (second half) of my 60
> gig drive. My plan was to clone C to the front D; section and then
> clean the former C drive and change ribbons and jumpers so 60 gig
> becomes my new boot drive with some space.And old C becomes a slave
> drive. Cloning from D to e appears fine; .. now wish to wipe off info
> at front of second partitioned drive to place c drive programs
> including hidden files and years of personal files. If I run fdisk I
> think I'll lose my e drive files. I used the Start, run, cmd format
> asks for drive volume and then warns as per usual then is unable to
> dismount D drive? why I closed as many handles as possible via three
> finger salute then individually selecting posessess and closing them.
> then retrying to format the drive via the cmd line format comand with
> the /x switch
> My end goal is to have bootable C on my larger drive without losing
> any functions, programs, or filesif I do this I won't have to change
> regisrty addresses as the programs on C will be on the new assigned C
> when I reboot with slave + master jumper traded on hds, and ribbon's
> traded then my old C + D will be on the new assigned C + D so expect
> no problems if I can transfer these locations.
> ALL HELP APPRECIATED THANKS AGAIN
> .