Switching Windows Drive

message from David M. on 6 Jun 2004

I currently have my Windows XP (C:\WINDOWS) located on a small 8 GB hard
drive will less then 600 MB space available. I also have a 50 GB (E:) hard
drive that i had installed last year with over 30 GB of space free. I was
wondering, is there anyway of moving/swapping my windows
(directory/reg/folder etc.) on to the other drive basically making a
E:\WINDOWS. Please help, space is running out and im tired of having to run
disk cleanup everyday.

=?Utf-8?B?QkFS?= replied to David M. on 6 Jun 2004

You can use Norton Ghost to Image your C Drive to a Partition on the D Drive.

You should set up a new Partition on the D Drive, separate from the exisating information, which will eventually become the 'C Drive'. Your existing files will be in the second partition and it will become the logical D Drive.

Ghost the image to partition 2 on the D Drive and then 'Backup' from that image to the primary partition [it will become the Logical C Drive].

Unplug the smaller drive and boot off the big drive.

You can later reconfigure the big drive as IDE Primary and Jumper as Master. The small drive should become IDE secondary [jumper as master] and plug in your CD ROM to IDE secondary and jumper as slave.

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