New hard drive

[Guest]

I have installed a new Maxtor hard drive on my computer, as my original drive
is going out. How can I move or install the operating system (windows xp
home) on the new drive? I have tried to copy the contents of the original
drive using the software that came with my new one but am unable to do so.
It gives me an error message saying that "Maxblast has encountered a problem
and needs to close" before it finishes copying the files. I used my restore
cd that came with my computer on my new drive and it is working as the slave
drive. I tried disconnecting my original drive but I cannot boot from the
new one; it says "error loading operating system". I would appreciate any
help or information someone could give me.

 

[Rock]

I have installed a new Maxtor hard drive on my computer, as my original
drive
is going out. How can I move or install the operating system (windows xp
home) on the new drive? I have tried to copy the contents of the original
drive using the software that came with my new one but am unable to do so.
It gives me an error message saying that "Maxblast has encountered a
problem
and needs to close" before it finishes copying the files. I used my
restore
cd that came with my computer on my new drive and it is working as the
slave
drive. I tried disconnecting my original drive but I cannot boot from the
new one; it says "error loading operating system". I would appreciate
any
help or information someone could give me.

Unfortunately it sounds like the dying drive is too far gone to allow a
drive copy. Install the new drive as the master on the primary IDE channel
and leave the other drive disconnected. Use the restore CD to install XP on
the new drive, then reinstall any other apps from their original media and
restore data from a backup.

 

[DL]

The Maxtor utility may baulk if the memory is iffy
You could try the free trial version of Acronis True Image, but that also
will be effected by memory issues
www.memtest.org for testing memory

You would have to install the new drive as master, disconnect old drive,
then use the restore cd
If that works, after updating your chipset and other hw drivers, then
updating win, reconnect old drive as slave to recover data