XP-repair install

[BudMan]

I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one that is
installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old drive's data
on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP will it
work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so much
easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks for the
software on the old drive.

 

[DaveW]

Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh install of
the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is not
particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the motherboard
change.

 

[Shep©]

Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh install of
the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is not
particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the motherboard
change.

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[Shep©]

I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one that is
installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old drive's data
on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP will it
work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so much
easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks for the
software on the old drive.

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[David Maynard]

Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh install of
the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is not
particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the motherboard
change.

The many times I've done it it's redetected the hardware precisely as it
would have with a fresh install and operated in precisely the same manner
afterwards, as if a fresh install, with the exception, of course, of
keeping all one's settings, data, and programs.

 

[ric]

I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one that is
installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old drive's data
on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP will it
work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so much
easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks for the
software on the old drive.

before you do it, boot your old pc in safe mode and delete (using device
manager) all your devices. shut down, ghost/image the drive to the new
one and stick it in your new pc. it will probably work. you can't
guarantee it as if the HAL's hugely different windows may throw a
wobbler, but you've still got your old disk for failover.

if this doesn't work, stick new bare drive in new pc, install windows,
then slave in the old drive and copy your data over.

ric, veteran of this kind of thing

 

[JAD]

DAVE!!!! formatting the drives does nothing but verify HD errors and
maps them, basically. If the drive is bad enough that you feel a NEED
to format, why are you using the drive? Registry errors are NOT
related to(99% of the time) 'NOT formatting the drive' but rather the
corruption of the disk that the files are being copied from software
installed / uninstalled wrong -or virii.

 

[BudMan]

Just a quick note to all who helped. The install on a new machine went off
without nearly a hitch. The biggest problem I had was cloning the drive.
Ghost 2003 does not write a new boot sector on a USB transfer. I had to put
both the drives on one cable and clone them the old fashoned way.
Other than that the install went well. All the files and programs are there
and work well. The drivers for the new hardware installed correctly when I
went to device manager and updated the drivers for all the X'd out hardware.
The only odd thing was that I did not have to call MS for a product
activation. Maybe my score was just below the theshold, but it was a new
MB, memory, drive, video card, and DVD burner.