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Switching HD

Apr 16, 2005 1:50PM PDT

I changed hard drives. I had an 80 Gig and added a 160 Gig. I left the 80 Gig the master and made the 160 Gig the slave. Then, I used the Western Digital program that came with the 160, Data Lifeguard Tools (Maybe I should have used Ghost, instead!), to copy the files from the 80 to the 160. After that I switched master and slave since I wanted the 160 as the master.

I am using Norton System Works 2004 as a computer help program and have used it regularly. When I ran it after changing HD's around, it showed a lot of errors.

I can run the WinDoctor and it gives me a bunch of problem areas mostly Invalid Active X/COM Entries (100 problems). Those I can automatically repair.

But the one that worries me is: Drive Change from C to E. (177 problems) A removable drive has been inserted or removed, or, a director was moved to a new drive causing drive C to appear as drive E. These problems should not be fixed automatically.

If I can't repair them automatically, I have no idea what to do to repair them. I did notice that when I tried to optimize, it got an error message that said it failed to open and I can't open it. I don't know if its related to all those errors or not.

Also, I noticed that MS Outlook opens up but won't successfully send or receive. Also, MS Word wants to "install" and then gives and error message but then goes ahead and works.

Anyway, can you tell me what to do to help with the drive change problem?

Thank you very much.
Jerry

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(NT) (NT) What OS? and copying what??
Apr 16, 2005 7:51PM PDT
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I did Ghost, but . . .
Apr 18, 2005 3:08AM PDT

I did Ghost but something isn't right.

First, I notice my 160 Gig HD has only 149 Gig available even after I formatted it. Hate to lose 11 Gig to something unknown.

After formatting, I ran Ghost to copy my original C: drive and then disconnected the original C: drive and connected the new drive. It went through the startup but only to the blue screen with the MS Windows XP logo and the light shine in the upper left corner.

I am using XP Home SP2. I thought I could just add the new HD and make it my master and keep the other for backup, but I can't get it right yet.

Suggestions?

Thanks.