New hard drive help

[Ray]

I just purchased a new harddrive and want to move my windows files over. Is
there anyway without uninstalling off the old hard drive and reinstalling on
the new? My main problem is that I have "upgrades" that go back to windows
3.1 on 3.5" floppies and they are not good any more.

Please, when responding, also send a copy to my email - (e-mail address removed)

Thanks,
Ray

 

[Don MI]

I just purchased a new harddrive and want to move my windows files over. Is
there anyway without uninstalling off the old hard drive and reinstalling on
the new? My main problem is that I have "upgrades" that go back to windows
3.1 on 3.5" floppies and they are not good any more.

Please, when responding, also send a copy to my email - (e-mail address removed)

Thanks,
Ray

If your Windows XP is an upgrade version, you only need the prior Windows
versions to use as a qualifying product to install, not all the prior
versions of Windows back to Windows 3.1.

Your new hard drive may have come with a copy utility to copy your old hard
drive to the new one. Or, your new drives manufacturers web site may have
such a utility to down load.

Image programs such as Symantec {was PowerQuest} Drive Image and Symantec
Norton Ghost have copy features to copy one drive to another.

Don

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

Suggestion - Food for Thought - is you have software that require
upgrading all the way back to Win3.1, then it is time for "Spring
Cleaning" to weed out all that 16-bit and old Win9x DOS code to
provide a more stable and reliable machine - as for most software
packages, including OS's, an upgrade usually only requires "a"
previous qualifying product inserted via CD or Floppy to allow a clean
installation.
As for original question - yes as Don said, your Harddrive should
have some type of cloning software, also, you can purchase Norton
(Symantec) Ghost, then install the new drive as a slave drive, leaving
the original master in place, boot from the Ghost CD, and Ghost the
original master to the new slave - once complete - and this is very
important, remove the original master and configure the jumpers on the
new slave to become master, then boot from the new slave now master -
once you figure out whether everything worked or not, you can either
save the old drive, trash it, or format it and make it a slave drive
in the system to use as you desire.