Hard Drive Upgrad

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Bart Simpson

Hello All,
I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I missed it.

I upgraded my harddrive to a 120Gb drive, and let the disk formatting
software copy my old drive to the new hard drive. When I boot up on
the new drive, I get a winxp activation error. I then booted to the
winxp CD and started to do a install, thinking that it would ask me
along the way if I am doing a hardware upgrade. It never did and I was
at the point that it was going to do an install and would wipe out old
settings. (I even had to put in my old win98 disc to prove I was doing
an upgrade, even though winxp was installed on the drive). I then
shut down.

What do I have to do to let winxp know I just upgraded the hard drive?
Do I have to telephone them?

Thanks
Ed
 
I'm going through the very same situation. I bought a new
120GB WD hard drive and after installing it as the slave
drive, then I used the Western Digital software to
partition/format and make a copy of my existing primary
drive. Then, when I tried to make the new larger drive my
primary drive, Windows XP would begin to boot up and
just "freeze" with the blue XP screen showing. In other
words, XP won't boot up all the way with the new drive,
although the computer recognizes it and XP does BEGIN to
boot. I also used Norton Ghost to make copy my old drive
and the same thing happened. I've done this before many
times in Win 98 and never had a problem. I'm wondering if
this is something unique to Win XP?
 
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