Move HDD to new PC?

[Tom Snyder]

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?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

My advice take one hd drive and load your OS and then
setup the drive as a slave and just copy all your data over.

Alvin


Tom Snyder wrote:

> 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?

[Tom Snyder]

Do you mean to only copy my personal data but reload all
the apps from their original CD's? Is there a way to
avoid reloading all the apps?

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>
>My advice take one hd drive and load your OS and then
>setup the drive as a slave and just copy all your data
over.
>
>Alvin
>
>
>Tom Snyder wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>.
>

[Ignacio Fernández]

You should try changingthe BIOS settings to boot from the cd.... after that
do an inplace upgrade of your W XP and that's it .... I do it all the time
and it works fine for me.

more help here

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341





good luck


--
Ignacio Fernández
Tech Supp. - Dot Com Inc.

Montevideo - Uruguay




"Tom Snyder" > escribió en el mensaje
...
> Do you mean to only copy my personal data but reload all
> the apps from their original CD's? Is there a way to
> avoid reloading all the apps?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello
> >
> >My advice take one hd drive and load your OS and then
> >setup the drive as a slave and just copy all your data
> over.
> >
> >Alvin
> >
> >
> >Tom Snyder wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >.
> >