creating new boot disk

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Denman

Right, i want to upgrade my 80gb harddrive to 160 gb. i have both drives and can run them simultaneously.
Is there any working software for copying the whole partition on one drive to the other?
i tried maxtor something or other but it got about 20% then said to try again after defragging and scandisking, which i have done.
any help is appreciated in advance

so you need to copy the partition table, partitions, and MBR without breaking the addressing byte size? I'm not sure you can.

There's a difference in how sectors are addressed in an 80GB drive and a 160GB one. So a straight copy may mean that you can only access the first 127GB (?) of disk space.