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- From: bruce@bruces.frontiertech.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 2 IDE drives can't we all just get along?!
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 19:19:21 GMT
- Organization: Frontier Technologies Corporation
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- Message-ID: <1e0v45INN92i@spool.mu.edu>
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- > backup/transfer/restore operation. In the disk documentation,
- > for the IDE drive, it said it was possible to have 2 disks off
- > the same controller, with jumpers on each drive for slave/master
- > Well, can you leave both disks in and just transfer from disk->
- > disk from within the same computer?
-
- Sure, just set up the old one as the master drive (so you can boot from it),
- and the second as the slave drive. Go into your CMOS setup to tell it about
- the parameters of the new drive.
-
- Do the whole fdisk and format thing on the new drive to make it bootable.
-
- Use dir /s to find any hidden or system files on C: (the old drive) which are
- not put on to the new drive by the system format. Make note of these files and
- then use attrib to remove the hidden or system attributes.
-
- do xcopy /s c:\*.* d:\ to copy everything on drive C: to drive D:
-
- then go back and use attrib to replace the hidden/system attributes on any
- files you unhid or unsystem-ed.
-
- Then you can remove the old small drive if you want, rejumper the new drive
- as "single" instead of "slave" and plug it into the first connector on the disk
- cable. Run CMOS setup again to tell it the size of the first hard drive has changed
- and the second has disappeared. When you reboot, the new drive will be referred
- to as C: because it is in the first position.
-
- This is the method I used to transfer the contents of an IDE drive to its replacement
- when I got a new drive, and it worked like a charm.
-
- Bruce Backman
- Software Engineer
-