Upgrade hard disk?

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Olav

What is the procedure to move an existing Windows XP installation from disk
A to disk B?

The scenario is typically replacing the hard disk.

Olav
 
You may 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

Or you can purchase Norton Ghost and create an "image"
of your old hard drive:

Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10

How to copy disk-to-disk using Norton Ghost
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...hot&prod=Norton+Ghost&ver=10.0&csm=no&seg=hho

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| What is the procedure to move an existing Windows XP installation from disk
| A to disk B?
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| The scenario is typically replacing the hard disk.
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| Olav
 
Olav said:
Ok, I find it strange that such a common scenario is not supported by XP.
Click to expand...

Oh? Do you know of another operating system that has disk cloning
capabilities built-in?


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