Moving XP to a different drive

[Tim]

I have a 10gig drive with WinXP installed that is
rapidalyrunning out of space. I want to move the OS to my
D drive. Does anyone know the best way to do it without
having to format the D drive in the process? the MS chat
support guy gave me the following, but it still requires
a reformat. I am confused.

To Perform a Clean Installation from CD you need to first
make sure your BIOS is set to be able to boot from CDs
(they usually are). You should then insert the Windows XP
CD in your primary CD-ROM drive and restart your
computer. Once the computer restarts you will see an
option (right in the beginning before Windows starts)
to "Press any key to boot from CD..." At that instant you
should press any key (you have about 5 seconds). You will
know if you are successful when you see a blue screen
that says Windows XP Setup. Once in there follow
instructions to perform a New Installation. Delete your
current partition and create a new one when given the
option to, and re-format the drive for FAT32 (Full).
Note: If you have an upgrade copy of Windows XP you might
be prompted to insert a copy of Windows98/WindowsME Full
edition to continue with setup. Just follow the
instructions on the screen from then on

[Nick Le Lievre]

"Tim" > wrote in message
...
> I have a 10gig drive with WinXP installed that is
> rapidalyrunning out of space. I want to move the OS to my
> D drive. Does anyone know the best way to do it without
> having to format the D drive in the process? the MS chat
> support guy gave me the following, but it still requires
> a reformat. I am confused.

I used Ghost but found that becuase my other hard drive was different
model - when you try to load off it after copying disc > disc it notes the
hard drive as a change of hardware and tries to confirm activation status at
log-on.

That fails and you are logged off - my build is so shafted I can`t get into
safe mode agp440.sys hangs or something + when I tried to repair in order to
get back to an unactivated stated I have a problem with the default
Microsoft driver which just displays a black or blank screen on my monitor.

[Howard Brazee]

On 17-Sep-2003, "Tim" > wrote:

> I have a 10gig drive with WinXP installed that is
> rapidalyrunning out of space. I want to move the OS to my
> D drive. Does anyone know the best way to do it without
> having to format the D drive in the process? the MS chat
> support guy gave me the following, but it still requires
> a reformat. I am confused.

One possibility:

Install a new copy of WinXP to D: and dual boot for a while until you move all
the applications over.

Note: All versions of Windows put some boot files on C:\, but no version of
Windows has ever needed to be on C:.