Peabody wrote:

> I want to copy my current XP C: drive contents to the first
> partition of a larger drive which also has other partitions I don't
> want to disturb. So it would need to be a partition-to-partition
> clone. Then I would remove the old drive, make the big drive the
> master, and boot from it.
>
> Will Windows notice that it is booting from a different drive than
> it last shut down on? Will it refuse to run?
>
> It seems to me this might run afoul of the anti-piracy provisions.
> Something about a volume identifier?
>
> If it matters, this is a pre-installed system which authenticates
> from the bios.
>
>

The answer depends on a couple of things. First, what is the
status of the second hard drive --- an extended partition with
several logical drives? In this case, the answer is going to
be no because a primary partition is required from which to
boot. Or is it a HD with an inactive primary partition and
an extended partition set configured as a slave? Then it may
be possible, with the cloned image of Drive C replacing the
contents of the first (or primary) partition of this HD and
it will become the new Drive C when configured as the Master.

But is this really what is intended? Think it out. It just
might be better to replace the original, small Drive C with
a larger one, leaving the larger drive alone.