Installing new primary HD--how to transfer XP?

[Darryl]

In the *past* I've used XCOPY to move the entire contents of one drive
to another; however, I'm assuming that things have changed with XP.

I currently have 2 physical drives. The primary, single partition ~30
GB, is being tossed and the slave, 3 partitions ~60 GB, is remaining
the slave without the partitions.

Essentially, I want to partition the new drive (using FDISK I
suppose), transfer absolutely everything from the current primary to
the new drive, turn the computer back on, and not have XP hassle me.
It's been over 2 years and I haven't had any major issues with this
install (although I haven't gone ahead with SP2 yet). What's the best
way to accomplish this (I do have Norton Ghost if that helps).

Thanks for all suggestions!
Darryl.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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| In the *past* I've used XCOPY to move the entire contents of one drive
| to another; however, I'm assuming that things have changed with XP.
|
| I currently have 2 physical drives. The primary, single partition ~30
| GB, is being tossed and the slave, 3 partitions ~60 GB, is remaining
| the slave without the partitions.
|
| Essentially, I want to partition the new drive (using FDISK I
| suppose), transfer absolutely everything from the current primary to
| the new drive, turn the computer back on, and not have XP hassle me.
| It's been over 2 years and I haven't had any major issues with this
| install (although I haven't gone ahead with SP2 yet). What's the best
| way to accomplish this (I do have Norton Ghost if that helps).
|
| Thanks for all suggestions!
| Darryl.

 

[Guest]

If you buy a new Maxtor or Seagate, they come with 'tools' disks that
accomodate, initialisation, partitioning and cloneing of existing C-Drive.

If you get a non retail version of these, then the disks are available for
download.

If you get anther drive, then you can use Ghost to create an image onto a
free partition [on one of your existing drives] and then 'restore' back to
the new disk.

In any event, it is 99% likely that you will need to perform a repair
install after the disk cloning as Xp will find enough differences to prevent
it from starting with a repair being performed.