Migrating XP pro to a new drive.

[Lyle A Krueger]

As I understand it I can take an existing install and
migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help for
a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.
Thank you.

[purplehaz]

The 160 gb drive may have a program to do this or else you need imaging
software. In xp there is the files and settings transfer wizard but that
still requires you to reinstall xp and programs. To not reinstall you need a
third party app. Most new drives come with such a program.

"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help for
> a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.
> Thank you.

[Mark Saunders]

>-----Original Message-----
>The 160 gb drive may have a program to do this or else
you need imaging
>software. In xp there is the files and settings transfer
wizard but that
>still requires you to reinstall xp and programs. To not
reinstall you need a
>third party app. Most new drives come with such a
program.
>
>"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
>> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
>> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
>> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
>> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
>> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help
for
>> a couple of days and I can not find anything about
this.
>> Thank you.
>
>
>.

You could always try formatting the new drive with 2
partiions backup the 20GB using Microsoft backup and
Automated System Recovery, then take the 20Gig HD out and
use ASR to restore to the priamary partion on the 160Gig
drive.

I always have at least 2 partions on my machines one for
windows/programs and the other for documents/emails etc.
That way if your forced to reinstall you dont have too
try and get your data off the main partition.

[Lyle A Krueger]

Thank you. I thought about that but the problem is that
I have so many programs on the 20Gb drive now that I can't
install more. I was wondering about using Ghost? I think I
am going to download the trial version and see if that
will work.
Again, Thank you for your assistance.

Lyle A Krueger

>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>The 160 gb drive may have a program to do this or else
>you need imaging
>>software. In xp there is the files and settings transfer
>wizard but that
>>still requires you to reinstall xp and programs. To not
>reinstall you need a
>>third party app. Most new drives come with such a
>program.
>>
>>"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
>>> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
>>> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
>>> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
>>> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
>>> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help
>for
>>> a couple of days and I can not find anything about
>this.
>>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>.
>
>You could always try formatting the new drive with 2
>partiions backup the 20GB using Microsoft backup and
>Automated System Recovery, then take the 20Gig HD out and
>use ASR to restore to the priamary partion on the 160Gig
>drive.
>
>I always have at least 2 partions on my machines one for
>windows/programs and the other for documents/emails etc.
>That way if your forced to reinstall you dont have too
>try and get your data off the main partition.
>.
>

[Lyle A Krueger]

Thank you for your suggestion.
I think I am going to download the trial version of
Ghost and see if I can get that to work.
Again, Thank you.

Lyle A Krueger


>-----Original Message-----
>The 160 gb drive may have a program to do this or else
you need imaging
>software. In xp there is the files and settings transfer
wizard but that
>still requires you to reinstall xp and programs. To not
reinstall you need a
>third party app. Most new drives come with such a program.
>
>"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
>> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
>> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
>> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
>> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
>> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help
for
>> a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.
>> Thank you.
>
>
>.
>

[purplehaz]

You're welcome.

"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> I think I am going to download the trial version of
> Ghost and see if I can get that to work.
> Again, Thank you.
>
> Lyle A Krueger
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >The 160 gb drive may have a program to do this or else
> you need imaging
> >software. In xp there is the files and settings transfer
> wizard but that
> >still requires you to reinstall xp and programs. To not
> reinstall you need a
> >third party app. Most new drives come with such a program.
> >
> >"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
> >> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
> >> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
> >> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
> >> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help
> for
> >> a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.
> >> Thank you.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[ekud]

Drive Image works great.

Ekud

"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help for
> a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.
> Thank you.

[Yves Leclerc]

The trial version may not allow to writing to the new disk.


Y.

"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you. I thought about that but the problem is that
> I have so many programs on the 20Gb drive now that I can't
> install more. I was wondering about using Ghost? I think I
> am going to download the trial version and see if that
> will work.
> Again, Thank you for your assistance.
>
> Lyle A Krueger
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>The 160 gb drive may have a program to do this or else
> >you need imaging
> >>software. In xp there is the files and settings transfer
> >wizard but that
> >>still requires you to reinstall xp and programs. To not
> >reinstall you need a
> >>third party app. Most new drives come with such a
> >program.
> >>
> >>"Lyle A Krueger" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
> >>> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
> >>> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
> >>> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
> >>> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help
> >for
> >>> a couple of days and I can not find anything about
> >this.
> >>> Thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >>.
> >
> >You could always try formatting the new drive with 2
> >partiions backup the 20GB using Microsoft backup and
> >Automated System Recovery, then take the 20Gig HD out and
> >use ASR to restore to the priamary partion on the 160Gig
> >drive.
> >
> >I always have at least 2 partions on my machines one for
> >windows/programs and the other for documents/emails etc.
> >That way if your forced to reinstall you dont have too
> >try and get your data off the main partition.
> >.
> >

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Lyle A Krueger > typed:

> As I understand it I can take an existing install and
> migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
> drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
> room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
> have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help for
> a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.


If you want to move your entire installation to a new drive with
reinstalling everything, there is no way within Windows to do so.

However there is third-party software available that has this
capability. Sometimes such software comes with drives you buy,
but if yours didn't come with it, two products you can buy are
Norton Ghost and PowerQuest Drive Image.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

[xfile]

And maybe one more alternative for you which I recently found out from
buying a new Seagate HDD.

Their web site provide a software called DiskWizard will help you to move
data from the old hard disk to the new one.

According to their technical support, most of applications will not need to
install except some MS applications. I did not use it since I was in a
different situation. But you can try it.

Also, their technical support recommend the software is to be used with
Seagate hard disc - understandable - but guess it's not necessary.

PS: Be careful with Ghost, it is not very user-friendly for fresh hand
although it is powerful. In my case, I failed on the first try to messed up
with source and destination drive which --- you could image the outcome

"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
...
> In ,
> Lyle A Krueger > typed:
>
> > As I understand it I can take an existing install and
> > migrate it and all of the associated programs to a new
> > drive. In my case I have a 20Gb drive and I am out of
> > room. I have purchased a 160Gb drive and don't want to
> > have to re-install every thing. I have looked in Help for
> > a couple of days and I can not find anything about this.
>
>
> If you want to move your entire installation to a new drive with
> reinstalling everything, there is no way within Windows to do so.
>
> However there is third-party software available that has this
> capability. Sometimes such software comes with drives you buy,
> but if yours didn't come with it, two products you can buy are
> Norton Ghost and PowerQuest Drive Image.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>