Feb 222005
Because of the ongoing S.M.A.R.T. prediction of a harddisk failure, I finally replaced the disk. First I connected the new drive to the system, partitioned it like I wanted (the old one has 3 partitions, and I liked that setup), and copied all data from the old to the new disk.
I shut down the system, disconnect the old disk, connect the new harddisk to the “old” cable and started Windows again. From within Windows XP I changed the new driveletters to resemble the old, and things are working like a charm now.
No more F1 when starting my computer. Yeah! And another 40GB extra, since I replaced a 40G with a 80G.
Hi – what did you use to copy the data over to the new drive?
I just copied all the data via the explorer, and checked the amount of data copied. The disk is a data-disk, not a boot disk or systemdisk, so it does not have any “special” directories or files on it.
Before removing the old disk, I did some random manual checks listing the files in directories. Things looked good, so I took the plunge.