Copy XP (cross post from m.p.winxp.general)

[Karsten]

Hi

I have installed Windows XP on hd 1 (17GB), how do I copy it to hd 2 (120GB)

I have tried to make a simple file copy using explorer. I started up from
another computer, so I didn't boot from hd 1.
When I now boot on hd 2, Windows almost starts up, it hangs during startup
on a blue Windows XP screen (not the blue screen of death), I can move the
mouse cursor around, but nothing happends, and ctrl+alt+del doesn't do
something either.

Can anybody help me with this?

 

[Richard Goh]

I think what you want is:

Make a total transfer of all files & setting form one Hard Dive to another
in DOS



XCOPY C:\*.* D: /S/E/H/K/Y/C/R



Where C is the source disk and D is the target disk. Change letters as
required.

I have not tried this with Windows XP, but it does work up through ME.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I have installed Windows XP on hd 1 (17GB),
how do I copy it to hd 2 (120GB)

Assuming that you intend to copy the entire system
to your 2nd HD so as to be able to boot it from the 2nd
HD as a working system, one normally uses a cloning utility
such as Nortone's Ghost or Acronis's True Image. The
HD manufacturers also usually include a CD with their
boxed retail HDs that enables that as well. That kind
of copying copies the boot sector and the Master Boot
Record and the Registry as well as the system files in
a byte-for-byte image of the source partition and marks
the destination partition "active" (if you ask it to). IOW,
it involves much more than just copying all the files.

Is your purpose archiving, backup in case of HD failure,
multi-booting, move to a larger HD, or what?

*TimDaniels*