How to move Windows XP to a New Hard Drive?

[Peter Reaper]

Hi:

I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard drive
(60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my parents, and
don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows and all programs
on the new hard drive.

How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my New
Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.
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Thanks!

Peter Reaper

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[Josh]

Hi:

I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard drive
(60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my parents, and
don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows and all programs
on the new hard drive.

How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my New
Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.

Go to your hd manufactures web site they normaly have a tool that will
allow you to move your partition to the new hard drive.

 

[Ben]

Hi:

I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard drive
(60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my parents, and
don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows and all programs
on the new hard drive.

How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my New
Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.

I know you cannot find the tool.
He is talking about GHOST, you can get a trial version or buy one.
See Symantec's website for detail.

 

[Neil Howie]

Unless I misremember, Ghost trial version will go through all the
motions, but won't actually copy the partition. Or does it just leave it
unbootable?

Certainly, retail hard drives usually come with a CD, but I have never
used it so I don't know what is on there.

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| Peter Reaper wrote:
| > Hi:
| >
| > I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard
drive
| > (60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my parents, and
| > don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows and all
programs
| > on the new hard drive.
| >
| > How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my
New
| > Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.
|
| I know you cannot find the tool.
| He is talking about GHOST, you can get a trial version or buy one.
| See Symantec's website for detail.

 

[Ron Bogart]

In

Hi:

I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard
drive (60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my
parents, and don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows
and all programs on the new hard drive.

How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my New
Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.

I thing BootItNg is fully functional in the download for the 1st 30 days - I
may be wrong, but this program is very functional for what you want.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

 

[Neil Howie]

Take a look at
http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm

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| Hi:
|
| I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard
drive
| (60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my parents, and
| don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows and all
programs
| on the new hard drive.
|
| How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my New
| Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.
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|
| Thanks!
|
| Peter Reaper
|
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[Wayne]

depending on where you work talk to you IT support person. I have a hard
drive duplicator that works well as it will expand the C partition to fill
the new drive if desired. I will use it to copy peoples personal drives on
my own time since it is hardware based there are no licensing issues. As
has been stated many new hard drives come with software or you can download
it to clone hard drives. they are brand specific so don't even try to use a
different brands software.

Wayne

 

[Don Taylor]

I have Windows XP Pro and recently bought a new (and larger) hard drive
(60 GB). I want to give my old hard drive (20 GB) to my parents, and
don't want to have to reinstall and reconfigure windows and all programs
on the new hard drive.

How can I move or copy the complete Windows XP installation to my New
Hard Drive? A free solution is preferable.

google for xxcopy and read his large page on this process.
that will give you some information to compare with other
things you read.

 

[Andrew D. Newbould]

google for xxcopy and read his large page on this process.
that will give you some information to compare with other
things you read.

Try using "Drive Copy" or "Partition Magic" or "Norton Ghost" for
starters. All are available from your local PC World for a few quid and
all will do the job. Each uses a different method for cloning your
existing drive onto the new larger drive preserving your settings,
programs etc.

If your new drive is a nice fast UDMA 66 or better and your motherboard
supports these higher speeds, remember that XP does NOT support this by
default. You need to do a quick tweak in the Registry to get the best
performance from the drive.

---------------
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325
-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"EnableUDMA66"=dword:00000001
---------------

Just a point on installing new large hard disks ->

If you prepare the drive through the command line or from a boot disk (I
still prefer this as it is the safest method) then you WILL have
problems partitioning a drive larger than 65Gb. This is because the
FDisk utility does NOT support drives over this size due to internal
limitations (its an integer thing). If you search MSDN for FDisk you can
download a fixed version that does support drives over 65Gb. Also Format
will report the wrong size of a drive over 65Gb but WILL format it
correctly (again its an integer thing). Again a fix is available on MSDN
however its note required.

 

[Maris V. Lidaka Sr.]

Apparently, this applies only to Win 98, 98 and 98SE.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263044

Maris

[snipped]

Just a point on installing new large hard disks ->

If you prepare the drive through the command line or from a boot disk
(I still prefer this as it is the safest method) then you WILL have
problems partitioning a drive larger than 65Gb. This is because the
FDisk utility does NOT support drives over this size due to internal
limitations (its an integer thing). If you search MSDN for FDisk you
can download a fixed version that does support drives over 65Gb. Also
Format will report the wrong size of a drive over 65Gb but WILL
format it correctly (again its an integer thing). Again a fix is
available on MSDN however its note required.