How do I move Windows XP to a New Hard Drive

[Musicman50]

I purchased a new hard drive for my computer (Old one's going bad),
I have hundreds of programs, and tons of data on it, so a new install is out
of the question.
How do I move all the contents to the new drive ?

Used to be on Windows 98 you could setup the new hard drive as a secondary
drive, format it,
then use XCOPY C:\ D:\ /c /e /f /h /r /s..
This would move all the contents to the new drive, you could then change the
jumper to master on the new drive, remove the old drive, And you were in
business again..

Will this procedure work on Windows XP Pro ??

Thanks Phil

 

[sam]

There are various ways to do this, but the better way is
Install Xp prof on your new Hard Drive and make that
drive as Master, After the installation and windows
updates make your old (98) harddrive as a slave by
setting the jumper as per mention on the hard disk.
after hooking both the hard disk you shall be able to see
your old (98) hard disk in My computer. once you are able
to see the old hard drive then you just Drag and drop the
documents from old hard disk to ur required loaction (
current drive.)
thank
sam

 

[Musicman50]

Thanks Sam, But I don't think you understood my question:

I currently have Windows XP Professional installed on an existing hard drive
(Going bad).
I want to move the entire Windows XP Drive , including all applications,
Exactly as it's on the old drive to the new drive.
Copying folders and documents is easy, but I don't want to reinstall over
250 applications, and have to set them up, this would take weeks..

I want to know how to move my entire Windows XP to a new hard drive..

Any help much apperciated..

Phil

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----- Original Message -----
From: "sam" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:03 PM
Subject: How do I move Windows XP to a New Hard Drive

 

[Ricky]

You could try using a drive imaging program such as Norton Ghost or
something similar.

 

[Guest]

Using a command line process such as xcopy will not work.

Microsoft has engineered XP so as to detect such actions and cause the system not to boot. The hard drive detail, together with other vital information is recorded and used to generate a record, which will become invalid when a disk is imaged or copied.

Using Ghost to 'backup' to an image file on a separate partition or HDD and then 'recover' to extract the compressed file onto another HDD or Partition can sometimes work. This would work only if the new hard drive is very similar or identical to the original Windows HDD.

If after backup / restore, your new HDD won't boot then you may have to use the XP install disk to perform a repair install.