Moving XP installation to new hardware

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Phillip Windell

It there a method to move an installation of XP (SP2) to new hardware?
Right now it just goes into a "rebooting loop" when I attempt it.

I still have the old hardware if I need it and the drive was "ghosted" to a
new drive for the new machine, so nothing is "lost",...the old machine is
still running and intact.
 
XP does not like for you to change the motherboard that you were originally
using. It used the motherboard as the main controller for the Product
Activation. You can fix this by doing a repair re-install of XP on top of
the installed version. However, if your version of XP is OEM, then you are
NO ENTITLED to move the XP to a different motherboard/PC. It is forever
tied to the original PC/motherboard.
 
It is a Volume License CD, and it is the same one that it was installed
from. I tried it once and didn't give me the "Upgrade" option though.
 
I'm getting the same problem, but I'm only switching from a 40 GB Maxtor to
a 160 GB WD. Could it be that I need to do a repair for that as well?
MK
 
MK said:
I'm getting the same problem, but I'm only switching from a 40 GB Maxtor
to a 160 GB WD. Could it be that I need to do a repair for that as well?
MK
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You need to do a repair re-install of Xp with at least XP SP1 or SP2
"slipstreamed| into the install process.
 
He didn't say "UPGRADE" he said "REPAIR" - 2 different options.

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Phillip Windell said:
It is a Volume License CD, and it is the same one that it was installed
from. I tried it once and didn't give me the "Upgrade" option though.


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Yves Leclerc said:
XP does not like for you to change the motherboard that you were originally
using. It used the motherboard as the main controller for the Product
Activation. You can fix this by doing a repair re-install of XP on top of
the installed version. However, if your version of XP is OEM, then you are
NO ENTITLED to move the XP to a different motherboard/PC. It is forever
tied to the original PC/motherboard.
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Also in addition to having SP1/SP2 slipstreamed as "Yves" said, you'll need
to make sure your BIOS/CMOS and I/O Controller both support 48-bit LBA - if
not, you'll need to make a least 2 partitions, as without SP1/SP2, and
48-bit LBA hardware support, the largest partition you'll be able to make is
120/137GB, depending on whether you view the size as base 10 or base 2
numbering system.

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Thanks. The Bios is OK (according to Asus and what I can see) and it showed
up fine when I just attached it as a slave. And I'll be partitioning anyway.
What I don't understand is some people seem to be able to simply clone a
drive without a repair install. Nothing else in the system is being changed.
MK
 
MK:
Your instinct is correct. If your objective is to simply clone the contents
of your old HD to a new HD using a disk imaging program such as Symantec's
Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image or the disk cloning utility available
from the manufacturer of your new HD, then a Repair install is unnecessary.
Art
 
What could be bringing up my errors in XP copy? I
have the log-on, can get into my WIN98 partition, but XP gives me registry
failure: Stop 00000051, or can't load hive default_. My XP (SP2, all
up-to-date) setup runs great on the old HD, just running out of space.
MK
 
Make sure after cloning that the old hard drive is not physically attached. Having both drives
attached can freak Windows out until it recognizes the new hardware (the drive) and sets it up in
Device manager. My setup is similar with a 98 partition and XP on same drive. I cloned whole drive
attached new drive as master, unhooked older drive and booted up. Only issue I had was geting Boot
record setup right as I use Boot Magic to do my booting, had to set the 98 as active and re-enable
BM to be Boot manager. After XP boots and find the new drive, you can then put older drive back in
and wipe it out to use as storage.
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MK said:
Thanks. The Bios is OK (according to Asus and what I can see) and it showed
up fine when I just attached it as a slave. And I'll be partitioning anyway.
What I don't understand is some people seem to be able to simply clone a
drive without a repair install. Nothing else in the system is being changed.
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If you're just switching to a new HD and using it in the same PC as
before, a simple cloning without a Repair installation will suffice.
There are a few caveats in any cloning operation, though. First,
if the clone HD is to be bootable, it must have an MBR (Master
Boot Record). If the clone partition is to be bootable, it must be
a "primary" partition. If the clone partition is to be able to select
the OS for loading, it must be "active". Cloning utilities present
these options in different ways. Then, when the clone OS is started
up for the 1st time, it must not be able to see its "parent" OS. Go
back and see if all these requirements were met.

*TimDaniels*
 
I did it all several times. One thing I noticed is that when I go to
Recovery Console and use FIXMBR it gives me "This computer appears to have a
non-standard or invalid MBR..." When I go ahead and fix anyway and reboot
and run FIXMBR again, it says the same thing. Don't know if this means
anything.
MK
 
(When somebody bottom-posts in reply, please follow suite,
or the thread becomes impossible to follow.)

According to the Microsoft Knowledge Base, fixmbr doesn't
touch the partition table in the Master Boot Record. Perhaps
the partitioning has to be re-done.

*TimDaniels*
 
Sorry, that's what I meant,... it didn't give the REPAIR option.


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Admiral Q said:
He didn't say "UPGRADE" he said "REPAIR" - 2 different options.

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Phillip Windell said:
It is a Volume License CD, and it is the same one that it was installed
from. I tried it once and didn't give me the "Upgrade" option though.


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www.wandtv.com


Yves Leclerc said:
XP does not like for you to change the motherboard that you were originally
using. It used the motherboard as the main controller for the Product
Activation. You can fix this by doing a repair re-install of XP on
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of you
are "ghosted"
to machine
is
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I did it all several times. One thing I noticed is that when I go to
Recovery Console and use FIXMBR it gives me "This computer appears to have a
non-standard or invalid MBR..." When I go ahead and fix anyway and reboot
and run FIXMBR again, it says the same thing. Don't know if this means
anything.
MK
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Did you say that you're also running Win98 on it?


Have a nice one...

Trent

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Trent© said:
Did you say that you're also running Win98 on it?


Have a nice one...

Trent

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Yes I have Win 98 on partition 1 and XP on two.
Meanwhile I've downloaded and tried Ghost 9.0. Did all the recommended
changed for SP2 (DEP related). 1st partition (98) works fine. XP partition
gives me: Unable to complete the restore of image: I:\WinXP_Drive.v2i.
Cannot copy data from the image file to the destination.
Error EBAB001A: An unknown exception has occurred.
Details: 0xEBAB001A
Seems I'm not the only one with this problem but I haven't seen a solution
yet.

MK
 
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