question about 32 and 64 bit Windows partitions

I hope this isn't OT but,

My D: drive with XP 32 bit is physically failing. It's not losing data yet
and I have it backed up. The relay is failing. What's the easiest way for me
to reinstall XP 32 bit on the D: drive without having to reinstall XP 64 bit
on my C: drive? Would I simply make a backup of boot.ini and ntloader from
the XP 64 bit C: drive to a floppy then copy them back after I'm done
reinstalling XP 32 bit or would either OS refuse to let me tamper with
overwriting those files across operating systems?




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Mark W. Smith wrote:
I hope this isn't OT but,

My D: drive with XP 32 bit is physically failing. It's not losing data yet
and I have it backed up. The relay is failing. What's the easiest way for me
to reinstall XP 32 bit on the D: drive without having to reinstall XP 64 bit
on my C: drive? Would I simply make a backup of boot.ini and ntloader from
the XP 64 bit C: drive to a floppy then copy them back after I'm done
reinstalling XP 32 bit or would either OS refuse to let me tamper with
overwriting those files across operating systems?

why not just clone to the new hdd?

boot knoppix, go to root shell then type:

dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy bs=128k and wait till its finished

x and y a...d depending on the position of the hdd (pr master, pr slave,
sec master sec sl)

if you have sata or scsi drives do a fdisk -l to see which drive is
which /dev/???