moving XP?

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Jim

I recently purchased a newer and much larger hard drive for
my computer. Is it possible to move XP on to that hard
drive or do I have to keep it on the current one?
 
Jim --

You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

or

PowerQuest Drive Image
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

You may also wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability" (Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/).

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com


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Nicholas

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| I recently purchased a newer and much larger hard drive for
| my computer. Is it possible to move XP on to that hard
| drive or do I have to keep it on the current one?
 
Nicholas said:
Jim --

You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost personal/
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I had a problem like this too where I bought a new 120GB hard drive and
wanted to lift the installation off of my old 20GB and move it over to
the new 120 GB drive. I had successfully imaged the 20GB drive and moved
it to the 120GB drive, but now when I try to boot off the 120GB drive
Windows makes it to a logon screen with garbled text, and if I log in,
it can't pull up a desktop (it sits at a blue screen and does nothing,
like it can't find the file it was looking for.

I believe the problem is that XP still thinks the 120 GB drive is drive
F, and it's looking for all the necessary data on drive C. Is there a
way to fix this? Is there a way to remap the drive assignments so that
Windows doesn't get lost? This is incredibly frustrating and I'm almost
regretting my decision to buy a new hard drive over this.

I **really** wish Windows would stop trying to think for me.
 
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