John
December 7th 03, 01:50 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>Am I missing something here? Newkid from the Win9x
>world...
>
>I just attempted an upgrade from the 40GB hard drive
>which came w/ my Sept. 2002 WinXPhome system to a new
>120GB drive. I used the vendor's MaxB---t3 software to
>format and (disk?)copy the contects of OLDdrive to
>NEWdrive.
>
>After making NEWdrive the C: drive, I rebooted and
>encountered some, ah, strange problems:
>1. Integrated utilities such as MSInfo & Defrag wouldn't
>start & crapped w/ error msgs referencing boku hex values
>2a. OfficeXPstd components would start only after killing
>1-4 butt-ugly error messages.
>2b. OfficeXPstd wouldn't let me de-install to re-install.
>2c. MS support sent me right to a CSR that knew this
>Office problem cold (Imagine that?). 30 minutes later &
>30 reg edits later, I got a system that would let me
>de/re-install OfficeXP. The problems in 1. remained.
>
>3. But... the CSR left me with the STRONG impression that
>consumers can NO LONGER do "diskcopys" to upgrade their
>hard drives, but must reload the OS & re-install all (MS)
>applications on the new drive. So... I gave up and kept
>NEWdrive as the 2nd (non-boot) drive in the system.
>
>IS THIS TRUE? I can't imagine support staffs at companies
>NOT being able to diskcopy client PC drives. The
>alternative would be insane! What am I missing here...?
>.
>Yes, with XP you cannot do disc copy. MS will know and
make you reload. In fact, I changed the amount of RAM in
my computer and had to reload. MS sez this is because of
piracy and people installing XP on more than one computer
(for example, if you have 2 networked computers at home,
as I do, they want you to buy 2 copies.). After
confronting this problem now several times, I am now
counseling people to avoid Win XP and Office XP like the
plague. I am recommending Unix for businesses now.
>Am I missing something here? Newkid from the Win9x
>world...
>
>I just attempted an upgrade from the 40GB hard drive
>which came w/ my Sept. 2002 WinXPhome system to a new
>120GB drive. I used the vendor's MaxB---t3 software to
>format and (disk?)copy the contects of OLDdrive to
>NEWdrive.
>
>After making NEWdrive the C: drive, I rebooted and
>encountered some, ah, strange problems:
>1. Integrated utilities such as MSInfo & Defrag wouldn't
>start & crapped w/ error msgs referencing boku hex values
>2a. OfficeXPstd components would start only after killing
>1-4 butt-ugly error messages.
>2b. OfficeXPstd wouldn't let me de-install to re-install.
>2c. MS support sent me right to a CSR that knew this
>Office problem cold (Imagine that?). 30 minutes later &
>30 reg edits later, I got a system that would let me
>de/re-install OfficeXP. The problems in 1. remained.
>
>3. But... the CSR left me with the STRONG impression that
>consumers can NO LONGER do "diskcopys" to upgrade their
>hard drives, but must reload the OS & re-install all (MS)
>applications on the new drive. So... I gave up and kept
>NEWdrive as the 2nd (non-boot) drive in the system.
>
>IS THIS TRUE? I can't imagine support staffs at companies
>NOT being able to diskcopy client PC drives. The
>alternative would be insane! What am I missing here...?
>.
>Yes, with XP you cannot do disc copy. MS will know and
make you reload. In fact, I changed the amount of RAM in
my computer and had to reload. MS sez this is because of
piracy and people installing XP on more than one computer
(for example, if you have 2 networked computers at home,
as I do, they want you to buy 2 copies.). After
confronting this problem now several times, I am now
counseling people to avoid Win XP and Office XP like the
plague. I am recommending Unix for businesses now.