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Asked on 29/12/2002, 10:26

I bought a new 80 gb hard drive and after having difficulty copying the old drive (40gb) to the new one, I downloaded a program called Drivewizard that mirrored the old drive to the new one. I then installed the new drive as the master and the old drive as the slave, checked my bios, and everything is set. Then I noticed in the Windows Explorer when I click on the drive letter, the size of the disk is 40mg. I ran Partition Magic to see what it said, and it has Disk 1 partitioned as drives D and E (E having a label of Mirror_dr1) and Disk 2 as my C drive. How is it that my system is using the slave as my C drive? How do I remedy this?

Reply Posted on 5/1/2003

Your Hard drives should be configured as follows to give the desired effect:

New Hard drive on Primary IDE Master
Old Hard Drive on Secondry IDE Master (or Primary IDE Slave if no Secondry IDE cable available.)

New Hard Drive partitioned using Microsoft fdisk tool ("fdisk" from the command prompt).
Partition the entire hard drive as one Primary DOS Partition.
Format using FAT32 or NTFS if you have Windows XP.

When you start your PC, the new hard drive should appear as C:.
Copy the old hard drive to the new hard drive using which ever tool you wish to use.

Old Hard Drive partitioned using Microsoft fdisk tool.
Partition the entire hard drive as an Extended DOS Partition.
Create one logical drive of the entire size of the hard drive.
Format using FAT32 or NTFS if you have XP again.

Restart again. The old hard drive should appear has drive D: or whatever you configured it as now.

Hope this helps.

If you require any further assistance, please feel free to reply to this message. Please include all previous correpondance so that we may more easily track your problem.

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