A year ago, I upgraded a Sony Vaio to Win7 using a new WD15EARS drive. Needless to say it's rather slow. Recently, on a whim, I purchased a Seagate XT Momentus 750GB drive and I'd like to copy my reserved and boot partitions (ONLY...leaving the data partitions where they are) to this new drive.
Perhaps this isn't possible; can't get it to work, comes up with a cursor flashing in the left corner about an inch down. In another attempt, I got the "BOOTMGR missing" error, another a "replace media with bootable .....". Reading the manual only tells me I know absolutely nothing about Windows 7 drive setup....not that I know a lot about XP's architecture.
Understanding the 'Options', and when to use them seems to be my biggest problem.
I'm running the GUI interface from a floppy---
Do both partitions need to be set active?
Do I copy the 'reserved' partition first, then the 'boot'?
What type of partition do I create? Primary or primary/extended ... Or both? .... Do I create any?
Should I using any of the other check boxes?
Can anyone share a few tips to point me in the right direction?
Sorry I'm such a Newb,
Thanks in advance,