Hardware change and XP on C:/

[Mikel]

I have a machine that is 4 years old running XP Home up to service pack 3. I
have been having some trouble with the hard drive locking up, this is an 80
Gb. I bought a new 80 Gb to replace it with and have a drive copy program to
copy everything over. The question is, what do I need to do before I copy the
drive and am I going to have any issues with the licensing agreement for the
XP software I am using as this will be an exact copy of everything. I have
looked through the forums here and do not see anything pertaining to this
situation. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Mikel

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a machine that is 4 years old running XP Home up to service
pack 3. I have been having some trouble with the hard drive locking
up, this is an 80 Gb. I bought a new 80 Gb to replace it with and
have a drive copy program to copy everything over. The question is,
what do I need to do before I copy the drive and am I going to have
any issues with the licensing agreement for the XP software I am
using as this will be an exact copy of everything. I have looked
through the forums here and do not see anything pertaining to this
situation. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Assuming you have a decent cloning application (not xcopy) and everything
goes well...
You won't notice a difference.

Just be sure to perform a proper shutdown before the cloning, after the
cloning (before booting up) remove the old drive completely and make sure
any jumpers that need to be changed are...

 

[Anna]

Assuming you have a decent cloning application (not xcopy) and everything
goes well...
You won't notice a difference.

Just be sure to perform a proper shutdown before the cloning, after the
cloning (before booting up) remove the old drive completely and make sure
any jumpers that need to be changed are...

Mikel:
Just one other thing...

You've indicated the reason you purchased the new HDD as the same capacity
of your present one is because of "the hard drive locking up". So you're
reasonably certain or have even verified that your present HDD is defective?
You've concluded that there's no other hardware/software problem affecting
your system other than a hardware failure affecting your present HDD?
Anna

 

[philo]

Assuming you have a decent cloning application (not xcopy) and everything
goes well...
You won't notice a difference.

Just be sure to perform a proper shutdown before the cloning, after the
cloning (before booting up) remove the old drive completely and make sure
any jumpers that need to be changed are...

That's right...
so unless it's confirmed that the drive is bad (such as by running the mfg's
diagnostic)
all the same problems will be there.

best to solve the problem
rather than simply cloning the drive.

So if the drive tests good,
time to run a RAM test and check the cooling fans etc

 

[Mikel]

Yes, I am sure the old drive is defective. Right before it would lock up the
hard drive started a very rythmic click. I will have to verify what the copy
software is.

 

[Mikel]

The copy software I have is WinImage.exe

Assuming you have a decent cloning application (not xcopy) and everything
goes well...
You won't notice a difference.

Just be sure to perform a proper shutdown before the cloning, after the
cloning (before booting up) remove the old drive completely and make sure
any jumpers that need to be changed are...

 

[Anna]

Yes, I am sure the old drive is defective. Right before it would lock up
the
hard drive started a very rythmic click. I will have to verify what the
copy
software is.

Mikel:
Well it most certainly does sound like a defective HDD, but it's still a
good idea to check it out with the HDD diagnostic utility that's generally
available from the disk's manufacturer. Untoward noises emanating from a HDD
are *always* a cause for alarm. Anyway there's no cost involved for the
diagnostic program.
Anna