I had an old 60 gig drive with c and d partitions. got a sweet deal on a new 250 gig drive, copied the d partition over and expanded the c to fill the 60 gig. Did all this with gparted, which is a linux-based live cd with the gparted program on it.
Now I’ve decided I want to run windows of the faster new drive, so I shrunk the existing partition on the new drive, and created a 70 gig partition at the beginning. used gparted to copy the entire c (60 gig) drive to this partition.
1 hour later… ok it copies, so I take out the 60 gig, set the jumper to master on the 250, fire it up and….
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
grr. fine. plug in the old 60 gig again, go into windows. copy hal.dll over manually. No luck, same message.
google around the past few days and my brain is aching.
norton ghost seems like an option but costs money…
