How to move XP from a HDD to an other HDD?

[Guest]

I need to expand my HDD capacity and bought a new one. I don't want to
install xp again, i need to use the good old one but from the new HDD. How to
copy or move the OS?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You may wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability" (Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/).

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com

Or you can purchase Norton Ghost and create an "image"
of your old hard drive:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I need to expand my HDD capacity and bought a new one. I don't want to
| install xp again, i need to use the good old one but from the new HDD. How to
| copy or move the OS?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I need to expand my HDD capacity and bought a new one. I don't want to
install xp again, i need to use the good old one but from the new HDD. How to
copy or move the OS?

Scat,

you already got very good advice. If you'd like more background
information, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxMove.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Using PowerQuest's Drive Image 7 (now Symantec's
Ghost 9), I found that the folklore of
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage to be true,
at least for Windows XP:

After cloning one hard drive to another,
disconnect the old drive before booting up the
new drive for the first time. If you don't, certain
features of the new OS become dependent
on the continued presence of the old OS. After
the new drive has booted up for the first time,
subsequent boots of the new drive can include
the old drive - which will be seen as just a file
system on a "local disk".

*TimDaniels*