new hard-drive, new os

[Tracey]

hi
ive upsized and upspeed(ed) my hard drive, and made the move to XP (ntfs).

my old 8gb harddrive has win2000 installed, and is partitioned into 4 drives (Fat32 - dont ask )

i would like to transfer files etc, and even keep the old os (win2000) for dual booting.

I have new drive master, old drive slave,
I have installed partition magic7 and all i see is my new drive.

What next? ??

 

[fuunstatic]

if u boot up to xp it should see the 2nd drive ok and u can then transfer files etc etc

the basics of dual booting goes like this...

boot up into dos then into partition magic (don't access partition magic via windows)

create a partition about 10mb will do. Use partition magic to install a boot program into it (bootmagic i think its called).
make this 10mb partition the first drive to boot (ie make it active)
then you need to configure the boot menu ie tell it XP is in new drive and second OS ie win2000 is in older drive

when you boot up the 10mb partition will boot first, displaying your menu with the 2 OS to choose from

(the only issue you may have is possibly trying to make the win2000 OS boot when it is a slave, u may need to make this the primary on the 2nd controller)



"Work to live, don't live to work"

"The problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes it shoots back"

 

[Tracey]

um.. CANT see my fat32 drive from windows xp.. i guess thats my #1 problem
I CAN see the ntfs drive from the win200 tho.... interesting.
havent even looked at boot management yet, trying to get the new drive working with all my data.

 

[Freestone]

Is the old drive being recognized as installed by BIOS?

 

[rew]

have you been into bios to identify the 8gb drive?

 

[Tracey]

yes the drive is recognised in BIOS.
Also, i can see both drives from within Win2000. Just not from XP.

thought it was a little odd to see NTFS from FAT32 but not the other way... i was expecting the opposite