Move PC

[Paul Floyd]

Hi

I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can
avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the
boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've
looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with
instructions that don't seem to work.

Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to
get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full
reinstall?

A bientot
Paul

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Hi

I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can
avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the
boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've
looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with
instructions that don't seem to work.

Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to
get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full
reinstall?

A bientot
Paul

You have three options:
a) Clone the old disk to the new disk and pray because this is unlikely to
work.
b) Use an advanced imaging tool such as Acronis TrueImage with Universal
Restore.
c) Re-install Windows and all applications.

Option c) is likely to deliver the best result.

 

[John John - MVP]

Hi

I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can
avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the
boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've
looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with
instructions that don't seem to work.

Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to
get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full
reinstall?

A bientot
Paul

Bonjour;

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694
How to move a Windows installation to different hardware

John

 

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the simplest method is to take the old hard
drive out and install it as a master drive in
the new pc.

then take the drive in the new pc and make
it into a slave drive.

afterwards get your winxp cd and boot
with it.

then initiate a repair installation to synchronize
the system files to your new configuration.

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[Paul Floyd]

As mentioned, Acronis TrueImage with Universal Restore may work.
Also, LapLink's PCMover has worked for me in your situtation.

Hi

I doubt that either of these will be an option for me, as I suppose that
they require a working Windows installation on the source machine.

A bientot
Paul

 

[Paul Floyd]

the simplest method is to take the old hard
drive out and install it as a master drive in
the new pc.

then take the drive in the new pc and make
it into a slave drive.

afterwards get your winxp cd and boot
with it.

then initiate a repair installation to synchronize
the system files to your new configuration.

Master drive? It's a SCSI disk, and sadly the old-ish HBA doesn't seem
to be bootable in the new PC.

A bientot
Paul

 

[Paul Floyd]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've followed this, including removing ie7/8. Now my problem seems to be
getting the PC to boot. I have

SATA disk 1:
partition 1 FreeDOS
SATA disk 2:
partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (destination)
SCSI id 1
has an NTFS data logical partition
SCSI id 2
partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (source)
also has a FAT logical partition

I'm using OpenSolaris grub to boot (from partition 2 on SATA disk1,
which is active).

If I try to chainload the Windows XP partition, the PC just resets back
to the BIOS boot screen.

Any ideas?

A bientot
Paul

 

[John John - MVP]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've followed this, including removing ie7/8. Now my problem seems to be
getting the PC to boot. I have

SATA disk 1:
partition 1 FreeDOS
SATA disk 2:
partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (destination)
SCSI id 1
has an NTFS data logical partition
SCSI id 2
partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (source)
also has a FAT logical partition

I'm using OpenSolaris grub to boot (from partition 2 on SATA disk1,
which is active).

If I try to chainload the Windows XP partition, the PC just resets back
to the BIOS boot screen.

Any ideas?

To do the in-place upgrade boot with the Windows XP CD, don't try to
boot the drive.

John

 

[Paul Floyd]

To do the in-place upgrade boot with the Windows XP CD, don't try to
boot the drive.

I've done the repair install, this is attempting to boot after that.

A bientot
Paul

 

[John John - MVP]

I've done the repair install, this is attempting to boot after that.

I would start by temporarily disabling/removing all unnecessary disks
and third party boot loader and see if the Windows XP installation can
be successfully moved and repaired without these other things in the
picture. Redo the in-place upgrade after you disable the unnecessary
stuff, if the installation can be successfully repaired then reintroduce
the other disk and third party boot manager, if it can't be repaired
then you know that the other disks and boot manager are not part of the
problem and a wipe and clean install will be in order.

John

 

[Paul Floyd]

I would start by temporarily disabling/removing all unnecessary disks
and third party boot loader and see if the Windows XP installation can
be successfully moved and repaired without these other things in the
picture. Redo the in-place upgrade after you disable the unnecessary
stuff, if the installation can be successfully repaired then reintroduce
the other disk and third party boot manager, if it can't be repaired
then you know that the other disks and boot manager are not part of the
problem and a wipe and clean install will be in order.

In the end it just took a bit more grub configuration. I needed to add a
couple of 'map' lines to get it to work:

title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

A+
Paul