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install xp on new hard drive/transfer of files to new hard drive?
Tomorrow I will be purchasing a WD 255 gig hard drive. I've been told
to install the operating system fresh on a new hard drive and not to transfer the Windows XP os from the old drive to the new drive. My question is, what is the easiest method to transfer the remaining applications and data from the old drive to the new drive without transferring the operating system. I have GHOST that came with Systemworks 2003 as well as software that will come with the new hard drive. Best, Aaron |
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install xp on new hard drive/transfer of files to new hard drive?
I guess your files are too large to put on a couple of cd's or a dvd's, yes?
Are you any good at taking your comp apart and connecting a seond drive? If you are purchasing this new hdd then I assume you are putting it in yourself. Put the pin on the master setting, take the cable off the other hdd and put on the new hdd, then put the second part of the cable on the old hdd. You need to set your old hdd for the slave position. These are little rubber-like jumpers on the back of the hdd. Then when you install xp on the new hdd, and if you connected the second drive correctly, then both of your drives will show up in Explorer so you can drag and drop them to your new drive. wrote in message oups.com... Tomorrow I will be purchasing a WD 255 gig hard drive. I've been told to install the operating system fresh on a new hard drive and not to transfer the Windows XP os from the old drive to the new drive. My question is, what is the easiest method to transfer the remaining applications and data from the old drive to the new drive without transferring the operating system. I have GHOST that came with Systemworks 2003 as well as software that will come with the new hard drive. Best, Aaron |
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-- Tomorrow I will be purchasing a WD 255 gig hard drive. I've been told to install the operating system fresh on a new hard drive and not to transfer the Windows XP os from the old drive to the new drive. Why were you told this? It's a pretty common thing to do and works fine, but you have to unplug the old drive for the first boot else the OS will keep using it. In other words, hook new drive up, dupe the old to the new before booting windows and then boot with only the new drive hooked up, once. My question is, what is the easiest method to transfer the remaining applications and data from the old drive to the new drive without transferring the operating system. I have GHOST that came with Systemworks 2003 as well as software that will come with the new hard drive. Either of those will dupe the old drive to the new. Neither will transfer apps and data from an old windows installation to a new one. "IF" your present windows installation works properly, if you have no reason to reinstall windows other than this supposed-need based on getting a new drive, just dupe the old drive to new one with the HDD manufacturer's utility. From a clean install the most reliable way to transfer apps is to reinstall them, THEN copy over the apps' folders from the old HDD to the new one, overwriting what was installed. This will miss a lot, you'd still have registry settings you could export and merge into the new registry, data stores and documents to copy over from old drive to new. In other words, if you're going to do a clean install, don't touch the data on the old drive for awhile, so at worst you can have it available to boot, copy off data, export registry if necessary. This is all a hard way to go though if all you really need is a complete duplicate of the current OS /apps/etc, then just dupe it. I can't think of a good reason why you couldn't use the WD copying utility software to move your entire hard drive software to your new drive. Give it a shot. What have you got to lose? By the way, you have backed up your data, right? There is also another program called Acronis True Image that will give you a clone of your old hard drive to your new one. Works very nicely. |
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