Migrating Windows XP Professional to new Hard drive.

[Tony]

I have purchased a new, larger hard drive for my dell
inspiron 5000 laptop. I want to transfer win xp
professional(The Upgrade Version)to the new harddrive.
Both hard drives cannot be connected simultaneously. How
can I transfer the os.

 

[Nicholas]

You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:

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

or

PowerQuest Drive Image
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

You may also 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


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Nicholas

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| I have purchased a new, larger hard drive for my dell
| inspiron 5000 laptop. I want to transfer win xp
| professional(The Upgrade Version)to the new harddrive.
| Both hard drives cannot be connected simultaneously. How
| can I transfer the os.