New harddrive

J

John R. Parker

I just bought a new hard drive and to replace my older
drive. Is there a way to tranfer windows and all the
existing files to the new drive w/o having to reinstall
windows and the programs?? And will the windows xp
remain activated if i do such a thing or will i need to
run the activation again or call in to reactivate XP?
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

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


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

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| I just bought a new hard drive and to replace my older
| drive. Is there a way to tranfer windows and all the
| existing files to the new drive w/o having to reinstall
| windows and the programs?? And will the windows xp
| remain activated if i do such a thing or will i need to
| run the activation again or call in to reactivate XP?
 
K

Killie

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/

Does using a program such as Ghost etc not create a copy of the
partition as well as the files, therefor if he gets a 80 gb hd for
example to replace a 30 gb hd which he makes a image of then copying
that image to the new 80 gb the new hd will only give 30 gb of space.

It's been a few years since I used anything like thes prog's have they
got round that problem?


Killie

Drop in and say hello at www.killies.co.uk/forums/index.php
Always something going on at Killies Forums
New members always welcome .
 
G

Guest

WinXP has a wizard that does what you are looking for. I
have never used it, but theoretically it should recognize
the fact that you are switching hardware and reactivate
automatically. I would think 3rd party software WOULD
require re-activation since Bill Gates cannot keep tabs
on you that way...ha...ha. Seriously, though try the
WinXP "Files & Settings Transfer Wizard" (under
Accessories --> System Tools) before you reimage.
 

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