Transfer WinXP to new Hard Drive

[Charles Elliott]

I bought a new SATA hard drive (on sale) that is much faster than my current
drive. Is there some way I can transfer WinXP to new drive without
re-installing all the programs. I hava access to Symantc Ghost; so I could
Ghost the drive image from one drive to another, but would that work?

 

[Guest]

Hi Charles,
Yes it will work if the new drive is the same size or larger than the old one

Mandy

 

[Charles Elliott]

Thanks for your answer!

Naturally, I should transfer C:\ (containing ntldr, boot.ini, et al.)?

C Elliott

 

[Guest]

It probably wont work ..and it means it wont boot..because of different HDD
controller ...but after cloning ..you can run a "repare instalation" on it
and it should bring it to a bootable state.

 

[Charles Elliott]

Thanks.

It probably wont work ..and it means it wont boot..because of different
HDD
controller ...but after cloning ..you can run a "repare instalation" on it
and it should bring it to a bootable state.

 

[Guest]

How do you run a "repair installation"?
I'm in the same situation (see my thread "NTLDR is missing")

 

[DL]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I bought a new SATA hard drive (on sale) that is much faster than my current
drive. Is there some way I can transfer WinXP to new drive without
re-installing all the programs. I hava access to Symantc Ghost; so I could
Ghost the drive image from one drive to another, but would that work?

Charles,

some more info can be found at http://winhlp.com/WxMove.htm .

Hans-Georg