Just installed New WD320 GB hdd - Partition CLone problems?

[pbeaugrand]

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[merl1n]

Hey all I got my new 320 GB WD scorpio drive in last night, it was a breeze took 20 minutes with ifixit.com
So I got my old 250 drive put it in a usb 2 enclosure
Reinstalled os X on my 320 and transfered files and settings - GREAT
Now I had a 200 GB XP Pro partition on my old 250 that I NEED
Ive been trying to use winclone and superduper to take my partition from my external drive and move it to my new one so i DONT have to reinstall XP again!

I have my MBP, 250 GB usb 2 drive and os x up and running on that system..
I will do anything to get my stupid bootcamp partition copied over to my new 320 GB drive without reinstalling

Its not really working..
Any advice?
Please?
Pat

Question: When you installed the WD drive, did you reformat it before transferring files?

The reason is that most manufacturers pre-format their drives for a PC and the Partition mapping scheme is usually "Master Boot Record". This is not good for MacOS running on Intel. This may be why you are having problems with SuperDuper as the partition maps differ between your two physical drives.

The drive should have a partition map of GUID before you start.

What I would do is this:

Boot off the old drive (in the external enclosure).
Run Disk Utility.
Select the new drive device (not the volumes beneath it) and go to the Partition tab.
Change "Current" to "1 Partition" (this will enable the "options" button).
Click options button and select the GUID partition mapping. Click OK
Name the disk (no spaces in the name) and click Apply.

The disk will reformat now with the correct partition mapping.

Now use SuperDuper and clone the old drive to the new drive.