Swapping C: drive with another HD

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I have just installed WinXP on my W2k computer. Can I do a clean
Install of XP onto a second drive and copy my setup from the c drive
to the d drive then switch the C and D drives?

Thanks
Mike
 
MikeM said:
I have just installed WinXP on my W2k computer. Can I do a clean
Install of XP onto a second drive and copy my setup from the c drive
to the d drive then switch the C and D drives?

Thanks
Mike
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Yes. When you do this, buy a slide out tray-and-receptacle for the each
hd. With quite similar (i.e. identical mobos etc.) computers, they can even
be interchanged between 2 computers, like one at home and one at work.
You'll wonder why you waited so long to do this! s
 
That depends on whether you have an OEM version of XP or an upgrade.
If you have an upgrade, you'll need to have the original disk of th
old OS

I don't know if you could do that install and still save all you
settings. I'd suggest the XP transfer tool to see if it may work.
But, I'd say probably not

To transfer what you have to another drive, you only need put it in
RAID 1 array and let it have at it. When the RAID is complete, yo
only need to swap the drives. Remember, you need an equal, or highe
capacity hard drive to RAID to

I use this method all the time to upgrade/ update hard drives
 
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