Installing Windows XP Home Edition to new hard drive

[Rich Mahon]

Can anyone tell me the easiest way to install Windows XP
Home Edition upgrade on a new hard drive. I want to make my
old drive (only 30 GB) my slave now and my new drive (120
GB) my master? I only want to run this on 1 computer per
license agreement.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Check it here:-
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can anyone tell me the easiest way to install Windows XP
Home Edition upgrade on a new hard drive. I want to make my
old drive (only 30 GB) my slave now and my new drive (120
GB) my master?

What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1),
highlight the Free Space in it, and Paste.

You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or leave some free space so
as later to make a new separate partition it

Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.