copy old hard drive to new hard drive

[UncleCC]

I am trying to copy an Western Digital 10gig hard drive to a new Western Digital 80Gig hard drive using the Disc that came with the new hard drive.

The system is running windows 2000 pro.

When I run the drive copy it copies everything over to the new hard drive.

But it will not start-up in windows 2000.

It gives a message, "bypassing startup files"
and just goes to a dos prompt.

Both drives show up as C and D.

Something wrong? Am I missing something?

Or do I have to a complete reinstall?

[BipolarBill]

Don't you have a copy of Norton Ghost somewhere? Use that. You can use this too:

www.bootitng.com

Just don't install the boot manager.

[UncleCC]

:(

No Ghost....

Will try the bootitng...

Will post back when done

Thanks Bill

[UncleCC]

OK...a update with another problem.

Guess I need to add this info.
The PC is a Dell, Precision 220 , BIOS Ver. A13 running a single P3 733 with 384meg Ram using Windows 2000 Pro.
Hard drives are using a 80 pin cable. (I tried the one that came with the new HD and the old one, both, same results

The only way I could get the new hard drive to work was to use WD's overlay. Seems the MB can not handle the 80gig HD only up to 32Gig.

So, the WD drive copy did work, the new HD works fine, now the new problem:

The old 10 gig HD does not show up in Windows 2000. It does run fine when I disconnect the new HD.
It shows up in the BIOS but once Windows starts up...nothing. its gone.

I have checked jumpers, cable connections etc..even switched jumpers from Master, Slave to Cable Select, still the hard drive does not show up in Windows.

What am I missing?

:confused:

[BipolarBill]

Zap the old drive to remove the overlay:

http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe

Unzip that. Copy ZAP.COM to a bootable floppy. Hook up the OLD drive alone. Run ZAP 0 (zero) to clear the drive.

Now - for the zillionth time, mind the jumpers on the WD. There are different settings for LONE and MASTER w/slave. Best to just use Cable Select.

[UncleCC]

Bill,
OK..
So you are saying that even the old 10gig wd hard drive has an overlay on it? (from dell?)

The old drive works fine by itself.
The new drive works fine by itself. (it does use the Western Digital overlay), it shows up on the post screen.

I downloaded the ZAP file and made a bootable disk.

But will wait to here back before I run it.
Will this ZAP all info from the old HD?

This is not my system, its for a guy at the office. Want to be sure that I got all of his data before I clean the old HD.

Thanks Bill.

[cuelebre]

Have you try installing the 10GB in the secondary IDE chanel ??

[UncleCC]

No..I have not tried that.

There is a CD-Rom on that channel.

But, I will try it and post back

OK...
Connected the old drive to the secondary ide channel.

Works fine.
Both hd drives are now showing up in Windows 2000, along with the CD-rom drive.

Great.

But, what happens when another device is added, like a DVD burner. Should that be added to the Primary SLAVE?

THANKS...:t

[BipolarBill]

Yes - you can add CDROMs as slaves to the two masters.

[UncleCC]

OK..Thanks ALL.....

BUT, I may be one seat away from the dunce cap, but something does not make sense. That the drive works fine connected alone on the Primary, and works fine connected to the Secondary along with another device.
BUT it will not work on the Primary channel along with another hard drive.:confused:

But for now it works..:t

Thanks

[cuelebre]

That is one more of many HD misteries.
I've seen it quite often when you try to mix to diferent brands like Seagate and WD, but I don't recall that happening with two of the same brand.
HDs seam to have a mind on their on:confused:

[UncleCC]

Yea...Seems some HD's are just here make me nuttier than I am...

Case closed...

Again,
Thanks to ALL...

:t