[Topher5001]

I've been having problems with an 80gb HD because of drive overlay, so I bought a 200gb WD HD. I installed WinXP Pro & recovered my data from the 80gb drive, but I didn't notice that WinXP called the partition F. I can't rename it since that's the partition it boots to.
WinXP originally didn't see all the drive & created a 127gb partition (F). I installed SP1a & formatted the remaining 58.32gb as the C: partition.
I can't reformat the whole HD since I can't remove the drive overlay from the 80gb drive & I have no way of backing up my data. I suppose the easiest way to make C: the boot partition would be to install WinXP to C:, boot to that, merge the 2 partitions & then create whatever partions I want (a 25gb OS partition & the rest as data).
Is there an easier & safe way?

P.S.
Why is a 200gb drive ony 186gb?

 

[klnaj]

If you still have all your data in 80GB, why not just partition, format and reinstall window to the 200gb drive. Then have all the data transfer from 80gb to 200gb?

 

[Topher5001]

The problem with the 80gb drive is that it has drive overlay software on it. I used GetDataBack to recover the data to the 200gb drive & then use ftools from Hitachi (IBM) to change the size to 82gb (it was registering as 33.45gb).
Now if I hook it up as a slave, the drive overlay software starts up & asks for a boot disk. I haven't figured out how to remove the overlay software yet. Perhaps I can put it in my old computer & fdisk it on that.