migrate xp to replacement drive

[No One]

I might not have asked the onboard help this question correctly, but I have
a 20 Gig C: with XP on it, all legal, activate and so on. I have another
Gateway OEM system with a 40 Gig C:. I want to buy bigger hard drives and
move everything as it currently exists to the newer, bigger drive. Onboard
help doesn't recognize migrate, move xp to new drive or any other phrase I
can come up with that gets an on-topic response.
Can someone please tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Bill
Cape Coral, FL

 

[gs]

what stopping you from adding the second drive and use it for your data or
even new program storage. That would be the easiest, no hassle.

1. shutdown the pc
2 connect your second drive as slave or on the other controller, making the
required adjustment to jumper on the hard drive to attach the connection.
3 start the pc
4 log in administrator
4 partition and format the second drive (d?
start menu button, click run, type compmgmt.msc
click on disk mgmt, find your new drive, partition and format that
5 move our data over if you wish.
for each user, login and right click the my documents and point to some
part of your send drive say d:\documents\noOne's doc

 

[No One]

See bottom, please - not top posting ...

what stopping you from adding the second drive and use it for your data or
even new program storage. That would be the easiest, no hassle.

1. shutdown the pc
2 connect your second drive as slave or on the other controller, making
the required adjustment to jumper on the hard drive to attach the
connection.
3 start the pc
4 log in administrator
4 partition and format the second drive (d?
start menu button, click run, type compmgmt.msc
click on disk mgmt, find your new drive, partition and format that
5 move our data over if you wish.
for each user, login and right click the my documents and point to some
part of your send drive say d:\documents\noOne's doc

That misses the point. I have other hard drives in the system, which have
all sorts of data, spare programs and such on them, and are primarily used
to retain drive image backups in case the C: blows up. What I wish to do is
to REPLACE the C: with a larger one, keeping everything intact as it already
exists on C:. I don't want to have to re-install everything and download a
jillion patches to bring XP back up to date.

BTW, we're talking XP home with SP2 on both machines.

Thanks to all again,
Bill

 

[Ron Martell]

I might not have asked the onboard help this question correctly, but I have
a 20 Gig C: with XP on it, all legal, activate and so on. I have another
Gateway OEM system with a 40 Gig C:. I want to buy bigger hard drives and
move everything as it currently exists to the newer, bigger drive. Onboard
help doesn't recognize migrate, move xp to new drive or any other phrase I
can come up with that gets an on-topic response.
Can someone please tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Bill
Cape Coral, FL

Most hard drive manufacturer's have disk free copying/cloning
utilities which you can download from their website. The only
restriction is that they usually require that at least one of the
drives involved in the copying process be from that manufacturer.

Another approach would be to use a disk imaging product such as
Symantec Ghost or BootItNG (www.bootitng.com) to create a compressed
image of the C: drive on one of your drives and then restore that
image to the new drive.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[John]

See bottom, please - not top posting ...



That misses the point. I have other hard drives in the system, which have
all sorts of data, spare programs and such on them, and are primarily used
to retain drive image backups in case the C: blows up.

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If you have imaging software what is the problem?

John