NTFS files won't copy to new Maxtor 120Gig Drive

[ericallenward]

I am pulling my hair out. I have a HP Pavilion 7915 1.1GHZ a lot of RAM, 40GIG hard drive.

I installed the new hard drive, started the software and I got an error when trying to transfer all of the data to the new drive that NTFS files can't be copied.

I have been all over the MS websites for the last five hours. Please, Please, help.

I went through explorer and copied every file from the C drive to my new F drive. I swapped hard drives (the new one on the master and the old on the slave) and botted the computer and the message came up, Operating System Not Found.

I understand that NTFS is a compression.

[ericallenward]

I forgot to mention I am on XP.

What are you trying to copy with?? Explorer??

You need a partition copying utility. Windoze won't let you copy sytem files in use, so you can't do it from within windoze. You need a drive manufacturers disk that will let you copy the whole partition over. What manufacturer is the new drive?

Cheers
Mick

[ericallenward]

I have only tried the dos softward MAX Blast that came with my Maxtor.

[PresterJohn]

if your drive did not come w/the maxblast software, go to www.maxtor.com and download MAXBLAST. this is a utility that will allow you seamlessly copy all the data from the old drive to the new.

link below

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/dow.../maxblast3.htm

You need something that will copy the whole NTFS partition. Most DOS programs won't. Partition Magic will, as will some other free partition copying programs.

I think you can also do this with the WinXP CD utlilites. Anyone know how? I've never used it.

Cheers
Mick

[ericallenward]

Hi Prestor,

That is the software I tried to use and received the error message.

Are these NFTS or NTFS files the ones I need for my computer to boot up on the new hard drive?

NTFS is NOT a compression - it's a whole filesystem, like DOS, but very different.

I though the recent version of maxblast would work??

Cheers
Mick

BTW, did you boot the PC with the maxblast floppy? You can't run it from within windows.

Cheers
Mick

[ericallenward]

Yes I formatted the new drive and botted with the 3 1/2" floppy.