Copying xp and programs to new hard drive - HELP!?

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David Leidlein

I had an old 20 GB ata100 HDD that I installed Xp with
SP's and updates and all my games and fun stuff. I used
norton ghost after formatting the new 80gb SATA drive I
just got. Windows didn't like that so I did a reinstall
of winXP. All my desktop links are gone and some programs
are working incorrectly. The drive letter has not changed
but I'm afeared that the registry settings have changed.
Do I have to reinstall EVERY program????? All I wanted to
do was just ghost everything to the new drive and BOOM it
should work but it kept hanging at the screen after the
WINxp loading screen (with the moving progress bar). It
just sits there with Windows XP displayed and nothing
happens.I COULD reinstall everything but....WHY SHOULD I
HAVE TOO?! All I wanted was some more space and SATA! Is
it possible to just copy a disk image in XP or is the only
way to get XP on a hard drive is to install it?
 
XP doesnt copy well with third party utilitys,XP doesnt
copy well with XP copying utilitys.
You can copy hd to hd with XCOPY,its included in XP.
Go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Then click run,D: being the hd to copy to,agree to all
in the DOS window,the hd(D:) must be empty,formatted
though.It works for many,not all,the best practice is
to use the file transfer wizard,having reinstalled xp
to the new hd,save to a file,current computer is set to
old,then transfer file to cd,it works great.
 
Norton Ghost 2003 works VERY well with copying hd to hd. XP works correctly
after (personal experience).

Partition Magic 8 does the same and also allow to re-size partitions.

Y.
 
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Norton Ghost 2003 works VERY well with copying hd to hd. XP works correctly
after (personal experience).

Partition Magic 8 does the same and also allow to re- size partitions.

Y.
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should work. if needeed you can get it from me
 
David Leidlein said:
I had an old 20 GB ata100 HDD that I installed Xp with
SP's and updates and all my games and fun stuff. I used
norton ghost after formatting the new 80gb SATA drive I
just got. Windows didn't like that so I did a reinstall
of winXP....
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The imaging process doesn't copy to a formatted
partition. In my experience with Drive Image, it copies
to unallocated space, and formatting goes along with
the copy. Try unformatting the new drive and then
use Ghost to do a drive-to-drive copy to unallocated
space. Make sure that you tell it to mark the new
partition "active".

*TimDaniels*
 
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