Howdy, On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:21 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Sorry Folks, > > I know this is a fedora group (I have fedora systems too) and > I hope some of you are tolerant of *gasp* windoes. > > I am desperate so I need to ask if anyone had any experience > in trying to create/copy the entire M$ windows OS (win2k pro) from > a main (old) drive to a new (bigger) drive successfully? I am trying > to get off of an old drive, transfer the contents of the old to a newer > drive and remove the old drive. I cannot get windows to boot off the > new drive. > > Here is what I tried to do: > > 1) Use Maxtor's disk utility: > > a) Created 3 partitions; 36GB, 50GB, 50GB (from a 200GB HD) and > was forced to keep total # of space used to <= 137GB due to > the fact my old system does not support it (BIOS and MS 2000Pro) <snip> Have you checked for a BIOS update for your mother board? I run W2K Advanced Server here & purchased a larger Segate drive. Had the exact same issue using Seagate's drive tools. A BIOS update allowed Seagate's drive tools to do it's do lickety split ;-) taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
