Repost: best way to migrate to new disk?

  • Thread starter Thread starter linda w
  • Start date Start date
L

linda w

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: best way to migrate to new disk?
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 02:25:51 -0700
From: linda w <[email protected]>
Organization: IshTara
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
References: <[email protected]>



I'm migrating my files and windows to a new hard disk -- the current one
is developing
bad sectors and want to replace it before it fails.

What's the best way to do this? I want to increase the size of my
windows partition by
a couple gig as well -- so if I setup new disk with proper partitions,
I'm guessing it won't
be so simple as a full backup and restore...or will it?

thnks,
-linda
 
Hey Tom,

If you use a disk cloner to do this, will you have to reactivate windows xp
due to the boot time hardware check. I know you can get away with several
hardware changes in a 120 day time period but I'm not sure it would like
having the system disk changed without reactiving ?

Paul
 
Can't address that issue specifically, since I've never needed to
reactivate. Personally, I never thought that product activation was such a
big deal.

Tom Swift
 
Neat link, but the util mentioned, while it does say it won't work on
'un-wpa-protected' versions
of XP (like in corp settings) -- it also doesn't work for OEM versions.
Aren't OEM versions
hardware checked just like the regular XP version? I know I had to go
through product
activation when I first powered up...

Weird...
-linda
 
Back
Top