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Roger
Hi,
Currently, I have Win XP HE installed on a logical
partition on a SCSI drive. I did this because back when
I was upgrading from NT I wanted to preserve my NT
installation on the "C" drive for a while. Well, now NT
is long gone, the "C" partition has been reduced in size
to almost nothing and the disk spaced was given to the
logical partition with XP on it. This logical
partition, "L" Drive, has been increased in size to
consume almost the whole SCSI disk. Well, now the disk
is full. So I purchased a new 120 GB IDE drive and I
want to make this my "C" drive with XP on it. I'll keep
my two old SCSI drives too (2 x 4.7 GB). So my question
is, what is the best way to go about getting my XP OS on
the new "C" primary partition on the new IDE drive? I
really don't want to reinstall all the applications and
set everything up again. Back when I installed XP with
NT already installed on "C" drive XP seamlessly read the
NT OS and copied all the settings and the configuration
so I didn't have to reinstall anything or copy anything
including Email. It was truly the most amazing install
I've ever seen. It was 100% seamless. Now will a new XP
installation to my new "C" drive do the same with the old
XP installation as the old XP installation did with the
old old NT installation? Is there a better way then to
reinstall XP in the new partition? Someone suggested
copying the logical partition to the new primary "C"
drive partition and then booting XP to see if it recovers
by itself from the drive letter changes and if it doesn't
then do a repair with the XP distribution CD. Would this
work? Is this better than a reinstall from scratch?
Thank you.
Roger
Currently, I have Win XP HE installed on a logical
partition on a SCSI drive. I did this because back when
I was upgrading from NT I wanted to preserve my NT
installation on the "C" drive for a while. Well, now NT
is long gone, the "C" partition has been reduced in size
to almost nothing and the disk spaced was given to the
logical partition with XP on it. This logical
partition, "L" Drive, has been increased in size to
consume almost the whole SCSI disk. Well, now the disk
is full. So I purchased a new 120 GB IDE drive and I
want to make this my "C" drive with XP on it. I'll keep
my two old SCSI drives too (2 x 4.7 GB). So my question
is, what is the best way to go about getting my XP OS on
the new "C" primary partition on the new IDE drive? I
really don't want to reinstall all the applications and
set everything up again. Back when I installed XP with
NT already installed on "C" drive XP seamlessly read the
NT OS and copied all the settings and the configuration
so I didn't have to reinstall anything or copy anything
including Email. It was truly the most amazing install
I've ever seen. It was 100% seamless. Now will a new XP
installation to my new "C" drive do the same with the old
XP installation as the old XP installation did with the
old old NT installation? Is there a better way then to
reinstall XP in the new partition? Someone suggested
copying the logical partition to the new primary "C"
drive partition and then booting XP to see if it recovers
by itself from the drive letter changes and if it doesn't
then do a repair with the XP distribution CD. Would this
work? Is this better than a reinstall from scratch?
Thank you.
Roger