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Unread 05-24-2002, 08:10 AM   #2
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max007007:

You're not telling us the whole picture here...

If all you're doing is copying data files, then just hookup your old drive to the other IDE channel, and start copying.

If you're trying to reproduce exactly the OS, program files, etc, you can forget about it (I'm sure someone will disagree). A system works better with a new install. (you needed to re-install everything anyways, remember?)

If you're actually trying to copy a FAT32 from one HD to the other, it won't work either, simply because your hard drives are different sizes. The only reason I could see you trying to do that, is for data recovery purposes (assuming you have a backup on the old HD) but since you're porting over to NTFS, I suspect that you've got a whole different purpose for doing that.

Tell us more, please!
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