Transferring XP from second partition to new hard drive

[hakaplan]

My current system disk has two partitions, the first containing W2K and the second with XP. I want to transfer the XP system to a new hard drive with a single partition. The boot record is on the W2K partition, so if I clone only the XP partition I assume the new drive won't be bootable. How would I solve that problem?

If there's no easy solution, would this work? Remove my system drive which I'll call drive A, put on a new drive, B and do a fresh install of XP on that. Remove that drive and do a fresh install of XP on a third drive, C. Add back A and B as data drives, and then just copy (not clone) all the files on the XP partition from A to B. Then remove all and install drive B as the system drive. I know to unhide all files.

Thanks very much.

 

[salvage-this]

I think that if you clone the XP partition over you can just use the XP cd to fix the boot record.

 

[bkribbs]

Yeah, just clone it to the place you want it to go. Then, fix the MBR like he said. It is not hard, don't worry.

 

[hakaplan]

Thanks very much guys.