Re: boot drive copying

Not sure what kind of drive you bought, but when I bought a new Western
Digital drive about a year ago it came with some tools (on a bootable
floppy) that copied over my system from the old drive to the new, larger
drive. It was really nice to be able to accomplish the task without
shelling out for third-party software.

Microsoft doesn't publish exactly what it takes to trip off its product
activation feature, but they do say that a hard drive upgrade alone
(supposedly) won't do it. I've replaced C drives several times with
larger sized drives and it's never been a problem.

-- 
Allison Henry
Internal Computing Support
Communications and Network Services
University of California, Berkeley
Steven Longenbohn wrote:
> We have Ghost 7.5 and it has done this flawlessly.
> When you go to restore the image, it automatically resizes to utilize 
> the full disk space.
> But you can change this value for your own purposes.
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:25 AM 2/28/2005, Rusty Wright wrote:
> 
>> Do you know of any product that can copy a C boot drive to a different
>> sized drive and Windows will boot from it after you make it the C
>> drive?
>>
>> For my home machine I've ordered a bigger drive to replace my D drive.
>> My existing D drive is bigger and the C drive is smaller.  After I
>> copy what's on the old D to the new D I'd like replace the existing C
>> with the old D.
>>
>> I'm also wondering if this copying would mess up the Windows XP
>> product activation since that involves generating some sort of
>> hardware profile and it might not like having the C drive change size
>> without reinstalling.
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