New drive stuff...
First off, let me be clear I've never done this before.
I'll make the assumption that your old drive wasn't living up to your expectations and you purchased a new drive with greater capacity, reliability, or speed. Currently, both are in your system, but you want the new drive to take over the duties of the old.
I'd take this approach:
Make your new drive bootable drive 'C'.
Make your old drive a non-booting drive 'D'.
Copy files from 'D' to 'C'. Be sure to copy hidden and system files and directories too.
You should be left with the same system, except that needed files are read from the new drive instead of the old.
I hope nothing was damaged on the old drive by your efforts so far.
Powerquest, among others, make products especially for this kind of job. They're easy to use, and can save you much grief.
Cheers, PW.
P.S. Windows needs to know what files are on your system and where they are. Copying program files, even to the correct location, isn't enough since Windows needs to know both it's location and how to use it.
Your Start menu contains shortcuts. To work as expected, the shortcut must exist and the target it points to must be in also exist, as well as be capable of running. If you copied a program to a new location, try invoking it with the RUN command on your Start menu. If it runs OK, create a new shortcut for it and place this shortcut in (on?) your Start menu.
P.P.S. A bootable disk must contain certain files. Not only must these files be on the disk, they must be in a specific location. This is why I recommended making your new disk bootable while it's still empty -- these critical files get written properly first.
Isn't technology great?
P.P.P.S. If Richard tells you something different, listen to him and ignore me. |
