From: "John Beamish" 

I've had a couple of issues come up during the install.  If I have to go
back to square one to recover, that's no problem.

Situation:  currently have a small 20GB drive and need to migrate to a
bigger one.  The plan is to install the new drive as a slave, partition it,
format the partitions and then use Ghost to move all the stuff on the old
drive over to the new drive and, finally, move the cable around so that the
new drive is my primary drive (and the old drive gets reformatted and moved
over to a different machine to be used as a second drive in it.)

I bought the drive and installed it as a slave.  I clicked on Start | Admin
Tools | Computer Management and clicked on Disk Management (in the left
hand tree).

Disk0 shows an MBR (31MB FAT) and C: (18.59GB NTFS).  (I'm running XP Pro.)

On Disk1 I did a RightMouseButton, clicked on New Partition and walked
through the wizard.  I did this three times and created three partitions.
Then I formatted them.  This gave me drives F:, G:, and H:.

I rebooted (probably not necessary).  Start | Admin Tools | Computer
Management and clicked on Disk Management.  On each partition, I did a
RightMouseButton, clicked on Explore and was able to create a little txt
file.

First problem:  although the drives show in the Disk Management display,
they do NOT show when I simply start Explorer nor when I click on Start |
My Computer and look under Hard Disk Drives (I just see C:) and they also
are not under Devices with Removable Storage (that's to be expected, of
course but I am mentioning it for the sake of completeness).

Q:  What do I have to do to make all partitions 'visible' to Explorer and
to appear on My Computer?

Second (potential) problem:  I will use Ghost to create the
"image" of the current system and then "Un-Ghost" it to
the first partition on the new drive.

Q:  When I move the wiring harness around so that the new hard drive
becomes drive0 (with C: and two other drive letters), will the boot take
place even though there isn't an MBR partition on that disk?  If not ...
what should I do and when?

Thanks!

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