From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: April 29, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: changing the boot drive
>
> Leo,
> I recently upgraded from a 40 gig hard drive to an 80 hd. I
> used Norton Ghost to clone the the drive over and had no
> problems. I would like to change the system drive no to the
> new cloned drive so that I can remove the old drive (I have a
> feeling it is about to die). I have found tons of
> information on how to change the letter itself, but hardly
> anything on changing the boot/system drive. Please help.
Well, I don't know if you can, yet. Booting requires that the
new hard drive have a boot record, and the operating system
on it for booting ... I have no idea if Norton Ghost copied that
or not.
If we assume that it did, then changing the boot drive depends
on your computer's BIOS and the type of drive you have. Normally
for IDE drives, it means swapping the new drive to be the "master"
where previously it was the slave drive. (Sometimes that's as
simple as a cable swap, other times a motherboard jumper,
and other times a jumper on one, or both, hard drives.) For SCSI
drives it typically means changing the SCSI ID to zero.
It's hard to get more specific than that right now. As I said,
it depends on a number of factors, but hopefully this'll get
you headed in a useful direction. You might check further with
the manufacturer of your computer or the computer's motherboard.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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