New harddrive

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John R. Parker

I just bought a new hard drive and to replace my older
drive. Is there a way to tranfer windows and all the
existing files to the new drive w/o having to reinstall
windows and the programs?? And will the windows xp
remain activated if i do such a thing or will i need to
run the activation again or call in to reactivate XP?
 
You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

or

PowerQuest Drive Image
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

You may also wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability" (Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/).

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

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| I just bought a new hard drive and to replace my older
| drive. Is there a way to tranfer windows and all the
| existing files to the new drive w/o having to reinstall
| windows and the programs?? And will the windows xp
| remain activated if i do such a thing or will i need to
| run the activation again or call in to reactivate XP?
 
You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
Click to expand...

Does using a program such as Ghost etc not create a copy of the
partition as well as the files, therefor if he gets a 80 gb hd for
example to replace a 30 gb hd which he makes a image of then copying
that image to the new 80 gb the new hd will only give 30 gb of space.

It's been a few years since I used anything like thes prog's have they
got round that problem?


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WinXP has a wizard that does what you are looking for. I
have never used it, but theoretically it should recognize
the fact that you are switching hardware and reactivate
automatically. I would think 3rd party software WOULD
require re-activation since Bill Gates cannot keep tabs
on you that way...ha...ha. Seriously, though try the
WinXP "Files & Settings Transfer Wizard" (under
Accessories --> System Tools) before you reimage.
 
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