copying XP to new hard drive

[njigsaw]

Have upgraded pc with new chipset and hard drive.
Want to copy XP operating system (including service pack)
from old to new hard drive.
Can I do it?

cheers

[Steve C. Ray]

You can use software such as Norton Ghost to move to the new drive, then you
will have to boot from the XP CD and do a repair installation.

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Steve C. Ray
Replace "email" with "brazoria"
"njigsaw" > wrote in message
...
> Have upgraded pc with new chipset and hard drive.
> Want to copy XP operating system (including service pack)
> from old to new hard drive.
> Can I do it?
>
> cheers

[Tom Snyder]

I just built a new, faster Pc and want to move my HDD
from the old one to the new. I followed the MS knowledge
Base article #315341 and 312369, tried the repair
function by booting from the XP Home CD, but it went just
so far and came back with a message "cannot copy
file ?????" . Now when I try it, I get the blue screen in
a flash and then it reboots from the HD and won't boot
from the CD. Is there any way around this problem?

>-----Original Message-----
>You can use software such as Norton Ghost to move to the
new drive, then you
>will have to boot from the XP CD and do a repair
installation.
>
>--
>Steve C. Ray
>Replace "email" with "brazoria"
>"njigsaw" > wrote in message
...
>> Have upgraded pc with new chipset and hard drive.
>> Want to copy XP operating system (including service
pack)
>> from old to new hard drive.
>> Can I do it?
>>
>> cheers
>
>
>.
>

[Tony-O]

Double check that you have your memory seated and latched. I ran across
that issue just the other day. It looked like it was fine but the latch was
not locked. I could boot the CD partway but kept getting blue screens. It
was strange.

good luck
tony-o

"Tom Snyder" > wrote in message
...
> I just built a new, faster Pc and want to move my HDD
> from the old one to the new. I followed the MS knowledge
> Base article #315341 and 312369, tried the repair
> function by booting from the XP Home CD, but it went just
> so far and came back with a message "cannot copy
> file ?????" . Now when I try it, I get the blue screen in
> a flash and then it reboots from the HD and won't boot
> from the CD. Is there any way around this problem?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You can use software such as Norton Ghost to move to the
> new drive, then you
> >will have to boot from the XP CD and do a repair
> installation.
> >
> >--
> >Steve C. Ray
> >Replace "email" with "brazoria"
> >"njigsaw" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Have upgraded pc with new chipset and hard drive.
> >> Want to copy XP operating system (including service
> pack)
> >> from old to new hard drive.
> >> Can I do it?
> >>
> >> cheers
> >
> >
> >.
> >