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- DOCUMENT:Q112019 04-MAR-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Changing Primary Disk System After Installation
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SUMMARY
- =======
-
- This article describes how to change the primary physical disk and
- controller while maintaining user accounts and desktop settings after you
- have installed Windows NT.
-
- MORE INFORMATION
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-
- This situation may occur when you need larger disk capacity or a more
- versatile disk controller. For example, Windows NT if installed on an IDE
- drive and you want to upgrade to a large SCSI drive without losing user
- accounts or desktop settings.
-
- NOTE: This procedure is not recommended by Microsoft and therefore is not
- supported. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the
- performance or reliability of this procedure.
-
- To change the primary physical disk and controller while maintaing user
- account and desktop settings:
-
- 1. Create a startup MS-DOS disk and copy FDISK.EXE, FORMAT.COM, and SYS.COM
- to it.
-
- 2. Configure both drives.
-
- 3. Place a primary FAT partition on the new drive and format it.
-
- 4. Use XCOPY to copy Windows NT files and directories from the old drive to
- the new drive.
-
- 5. Create a directory called CONFIG off the root directory of the new drive
- and copy %WINNT_ROOT%\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*.* to it.
-
- 6. Remove the %WINNT_ROOT%\SYSTEM32 subdirectory and all of its
- subdirectories on the new drive.
-
- 7. Shut down the computer and physically remove or disconnect the old
- drive.
-
- 8. Restart the computer, run CMOS, and remove the old drive reference.
-
- 9. Insert the startup disk and "SYS" the new drive (A:\sys c:).
-
- 10. Remove the startup disk and verify the new drive starts.
-
- 11. Reinstall Windows NT over the old installation.
-
- 12. After you reinstall Windows NT, start MS-DOS, and change to the CONFIG
- directory you created in step 5.
-
- 13. Delete *.EVT and SYSTEM.* files.
-
- 14. Copy the remaining files to the %WINNT_ROOT%\SYSTEM32\CONFIG directory.
-
- When you restart Windows NT, user accounts and desktop settings should be
- maintained.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: filsys
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