Tony said:
The disk that currently has WinXP Pro installed on it, is after many
HDD upgrades the slowest drive.
How can I move the whole Installation to a faster drive and hopefully
reatain its current state of customisation, links etc.
What I use is BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)
Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.
With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) and
Paste.
You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space
remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the
rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes
in that (to become drives D:, etc)
Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply. Also make a check that this partition is in the same place in
the table as it was if you do a View MBR on the old one - if not use the
Up or down to correct it.
Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.
