if you do what I just said it will do exactly as you wanted. it will move your 100 gig or more of documents to the 500 gig. it will clear that same exact space up off of the 250 gig drive. you will still have your program, registry setting and everything else. your second drive will be for storage
You obviously misunderstood my post then. I want my systems on one hard drive, (this includes documents) the 250. The 250 is new. Nothing on it. The 500 is old. System on it. I want the system on the new. Not the old.
I cloned a hard drive to a bigger one a million time with lots of different software without any problem. you just got to know what you are doing, which you don't. but again doing that won't let you use the first drive for xp and linux and the second for storage. my way will
You're right. I have never cloned a bootable OS before. I ask how. So far, you have been unable to solve my problem.
I do have it covered. I do not need to worry about my documents (which we were both refering to) I have it covered. Hence, why I said that.
Now, let's review my problem:
1) I have an interesting 500 gig drive (Interesting partition wise)
2) I want to clone D:, my OS, onto a new hard drive. I want an exact clone.
3) It gives me an error (NTLDR is missing)
4) A repair install was recommended. It didn't work. No, I need to re clone it.
5) Once I get my new hard drive(250 gb) working, I want to move all the files from my old (500 gb) to the new (250 gb) so I can do a full format of the old (500 gb) to get rid off all the partitons, and use it purely for storage of files, that would now be on the new (250 gb)
Can you actually help me?