Recovering settings, drivers, etc.

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Doly Garcia

My hard disk died suddenly. I had Windows XP Pro installed in it. I
had the data recovered by a company that specialises in this, and I
got all the contents of my old hard drive in a new hard drive, but it
wasn't bootable. The contents are in a directory called "recovered
data". I installed Windows XP on the new hard drive, thinking that it
should be easy to copy all the personalised settings, drivers, etc,
but it hasn't been so. If I boot from Windows XP in the new hard
drive, a lot of files are in use by Windows and can't be copied. If I
boot from a floppy or CD-ROM in DOS mode, xcopy seems to have problems
with long filenames. What can I do? I had a lot of personal settings
and software installed. I could do it all again, but it would be very
time-consuming.

Doly
 
You'll have to reinstall all your programs and drivers.
One cannot copy over programs and drivers.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
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| My hard disk died suddenly. I had Windows XP Pro installed in it. I
| had the data recovered by a company that specialises in this, and I
| got all the contents of my old hard drive in a new hard drive, but it
| wasn't bootable. The contents are in a directory called "recovered
| data". I installed Windows XP on the new hard drive, thinking that it
| should be easy to copy all the personalised settings, drivers, etc,
| but it hasn't been so. If I boot from Windows XP in the new hard
| drive, a lot of files are in use by Windows and can't be copied. If I
| boot from a floppy or CD-ROM in DOS mode, xcopy seems to have problems
| with long filenames. What can I do? I had a lot of personal settings
| and software installed. I could do it all again, but it would be very
| time-consuming.
|
| Doly
 
Carey Frisch said:
You'll have to reinstall all your programs and drivers.
One cannot copy over programs and drivers.
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But I've seen there are products that allow you to clone a Windows XP
installation for backup, and you get a bootable installation. Surely
what I'd like to do is easier?

Doly
 
Yes, they are called, "Disk Image", "Ghost" among a few - but you have
to make the image before the drive crashes, not after the fact.
 
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