Re: Amy experience w/NT 4.0 and swapping hard drives?

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From: Predator
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:00

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Phil Blancett <Phhil@oakweb.com> wrote in article
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> Hello,  I was wondering if anyone had any experience swapping bootable
hard
> drives from one NT machine to another.  I have an NT 4.0 machine
w/Pentium
> Pro that I would like to put my hard drive in that I am currnetly running
a
> Pentium 200 in.  Thanks in advance!
> 
I recently transferred Win NT 4.0 from a 2.1 GB to a 3.5 GB drive. I was
running FAT
on both the drives, so I simply copied all the files I could between
drives, did a 
file comparison between the two drives to find what didn't copy, then
booted to 
WIN95 to copy those files. Afterwards, I went back to NT, loaded drive
manager
and changed the boot partition, shutdown, pulled out the old drive and
rebooted.

I had a few problems with shortcut files pointing to the wrong drive, but
all of my apps
worked otherwise, plus my web server, FTP, RAS and other stuff. 

One last thing, I know that it would have been easier to just back up the
entire drive
with a tape and restore it to other drive, but I didn't have that option.
Good luck!
-- 
Dan Macgowan
The Predator.
Out hunting... The most dangerous game.

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Subject: Re: Amy experience w/NT 4.0 and swapping hard drives?
Date: 1997/01/29
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