How to copy XP from 1 hd to another and to secure it booting there?

[=SERGE=]

Hello,


The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.

There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Thank you

 

[Big_Al]

=SERGE= said this on 12/21/2008 4:21 AM:

Hello,


The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.

There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Thank you

You can't just drag and drop files to copy between HD's.
Normally people use a clone program like Acronis True Image Home or
Norton Ghost to transfer the data. These types of programs take care
of boot sectors and all for you.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's
copied.
There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Use proper disk cloning, disk imaging, partition cloning, partition imaging
software.

Symantec/Norton Ghost
http://snipurl.com/13e00

Acronis True Image
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

BootIt NG
http://terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

etc and so on. There are freebies out there as well.

 

[BobN]

Hello,


The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.

There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Thank you

XXclone is free, and it will make a bootable disk.

 

[smlunatick]

Hello,

The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.

There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Thank you

Check on the new hard drive manufacturerès web site. Several offer a
free version of a drive cloning tool.

 

[=SERGE=]

Thank you for your suggestions of the soft to clone....
But is this all...?
Will thus cloned XP boot immediately from the new HD?
or there is sth to do with ntldr ect...

For my question was rather about booting after cloning...

Thank you for answers


"smlunatick" <[email protected]> ???????/???????? ? ???????? ?????????:

Hello,

The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.

There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Thank you

Check on the new hard drive manufacturerès web site. Several offer a
free version of a drive cloning tool.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thank you for your suggestions of the soft to clone....
But is this all...?
Will thus cloned XP boot immediately from the new HD?
or there is sth to do with ntldr ect...

For my question was rather about booting after cloning...

Thank you for answers

If you utilize a decent cloning/imaging tool and utilize it per
directions... AND you have the hardware side covered correctly as well -
yes, it'll just boot. This is *not* copying file-by-file.

 

[Anna]

Hello,


The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.

There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?

Thank you

SERGE later writes...

Thank you for your suggestions of the soft to clone....
But is this all...?
Will thus cloned XP boot immediately from the new HD?
or there is sth to do with ntldr ect...

For my question was rather about booting after cloning...

Thank you for answers

SERGE:
As you have heard from responders to your query you will need a disk-to-disk
cloning program. A popular one that's often recommended by posters to this &
similar newsgroups is the Acronis True Image program. A trial version of
that program is available from http://www.acronis.com.

Needless to say there are quite a few commercial disk-cloning programs on
the market.

The disk-cloning program we prefer to the Acronis program is the Casper 5
program. A trial version (slightly crippled) is also available - see
http://www.fssdev.com/products/free.

The recipient (the so-called "destination" drive) of the cloned contents of
your boot drive will be bootable if the destination drive is another
*internal* HDD or an external SATA HDD that has SATA-to-SATA connectivity.
Should the destination drive be a USB-connected external HDD that device
will *not* be bootable. Obviously its contents could be cloned back to an
internal HDD and the latter would, of course, be bootable.

The disk-cloning process is complete in itself. There is no need to modify
any system files to achieve this "bootability".
Anna