Upgrading my PC's HDD

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I have an HP w/ XP Home pre-installed on a 40 GB hard drive, and I'm trying
to upgrade the HDD to a 200 GB one. It seems to have trouble copying the
system files, and logging in to Safe Mode doesn't have any effect. Can
someone please help me????
 
DeperateNeeds said:
I have an HP w/ XP Home pre-installed on a 40 GB hard drive, and
I'm trying to upgrade the HDD to a 200 GB one. It seems to have
trouble copying the system files, and logging in to Safe Mode
doesn't have any effect. Can someone please help me????
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Retail drive? Pretty box?

It probably came with a utility to copy the entire partition over. You
cannot simply do a file-by-file copy within the system to transfer a
bootable partition. heh
 
DeperateNeeds said:
I have an HP w/ XP Home pre-installed on a 40 GB hard drive, and I'm trying
to upgrade the HDD to a 200 GB one. It seems to have trouble copying the
system files, and logging in to Safe Mode doesn't have any effect. Can
someone please help me????
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If Shenan's suggestion of using the disk manufacturer's
disk cloning tool does not work for some reason then
you could temporarily connect both disks to some other
WinXP/2000 PC in order to transfer your files. Post
again if you need more details.
 
DeperateNeeds said:
I have an HP w/ XP Home pre-installed on a 40 GB hard drive, and I'm
trying to upgrade the HDD to a 200 GB one. It seems to have trouble
copying the system files, and logging in to Safe Mode doesn't have
any effect. Can someone please help me????
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How are you trying to copy the files? You can't just do it using normal
Windows techniques, and a special utility is required.

New drives often come with such utilities, but if yours didn't, you need
something like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost.
 
Shenan Stanley said:
Retail drive? Pretty box?

It probably came with a utility to copy the entire partition over.
You cannot simply do a file-by-file copy within the system to transfer
a bootable partition. heh
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Be aware that depending on a couple of items, 200 gig may
be too big. Your BIOS needs to support it and I think in
XP, it took at least SP1 to handle drives larger than 137 gig.
As Shenan said, probably the best way is the drive mfg util
to copy the image over, but be aware of the points I
mentioned -- if it is a fairly new (last couple of years) pc,
the BIOS should be no issue.

mikey
 
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