copy OS to another HD?

[Creatures]

is it possible to copy a system like win2k from one HD partition to another one?

Creatures

Yeah, use Ghost

[Creatures]

cool thx gonna check out!

Creatures

[shahani]

You cannot copy is as such. Ghost is imaging the partition and restoring to another partition.

Copying is possible (for the OS) but it will not boot up and work.

Thought you knew all this Creature. Or you forgot while on vacation?

[Creatures]

hey it wasnt a vacation!
i know that it wont boot up that's why i asked if there would be a way

Creatures

[John Prophet]

With W98 (ME etc) it is possible because after moving it to the new system you just go into safe mode on the first boot and then delete the "hkey local machine/enum" folder and then reboot which deletes the old hardware entries and forces the OS to find all the new hardware.

Not so sure about NT type systems though, have heard stories both ways. Of course with XP you are running into the activation thing.

JP

[shahani]

This kind of copying an entire OS is inelegant, clumsy and may lead to instability.

In my opinion, it should never be done except by peeps that don't know better. It is so much simpler to image the drive and store the image on a separate drive/partition or on a bunch of CDs and then restore.

Even in copying ME/XP, you gotta be careful to first delete the page/swap file because if you don't it will never complete the copying operation.

But, Creature, you have all disks so don't try and copy the OS like this.

[soulja]

or partion magic, can copy the drive to cd and burn and then copy the cd drive over

You can use Ghost to image the drive and then use Recovery Console to get the boot files back to the boot drive.

[Creatures]

ok does this sound better:

i gonna install the system on the other partition and then delete the other OS!

now i just have to find that stupid win2k CD!

Creatures