Migrating XP Pro to New Disk

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Micheal Sloan

Hello,

I need to move the existing XP Pro installation to a new
disk in the machine. The current drive (C:/NTFS) is
about to be added to a RAID configuration. Drive J: is
installed and is listed as FAT32. I want migrate an
exact replica of drive C: to J: and reboot to new
configuration. This should include everything...
registry entries, etc. I would prefer not to purchase
the latest version of Ghost. I thought about
reinstalling XP Professional then copying Windows folder
to J:. Would this work? Thanks for any feedback.
 
Micheal Sloan said:
I need to move the existing XP Pro installation to a new
disk in the machine. The current drive (C:/NTFS) is
about to be added to a RAID configuration. Drive J: is
installed and is listed as FAT32. I want migrate an
exact replica of drive C: to J: and reboot to new
configuration. This should include everything...
registry entries, etc. I would prefer not to purchase
the latest version of Ghost. I thought about
reinstalling XP Professional then copying Windows folder
to J:. Would this work? Thanks for any feedback.
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Michael (I hope that's your real name),

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxMove.htm.

Hans-Georg
 
Hello Micheal,

The best reference material is the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 249694
"How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware".
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694

While the title references WIndows 2000 the same procedure applies to
Windows XP.

Sincerely,
Jeff Wade [MS]
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| Hello,
|
| I need to move the existing XP Pro installation to a new
| disk in the machine. The current drive (C:/NTFS) is
| about to be added to a RAID configuration. Drive J: is
| installed and is listed as FAT32. I want migrate an
| exact replica of drive C: to J: and reboot to new
| configuration. This should include everything...
| registry entries, etc. I would prefer not to purchase
| the latest version of Ghost. I thought about
| reinstalling XP Professional then copying Windows folder
| to J:. Would this work? Thanks for any feedback.
|

Sincerely,

Jeffrey L. Wade
Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support
 
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