Upgrading System Disk

[Dave]

I don't have an older machine. I'm just trying to replace
the drive in the one machine I have.

Microsoft sucks! They are more interested in protecting
themselves from pirates then providing an easy to use
product for paying customers. And I'm a stockholder....

Shame on you, Bill.

Dave

>-----Original Message-----
> From what i heard,when i tried the same with western
> digital,it can't be done.XP has protective software
> installed preventing this.The best info.,use the file
> transfer wizard,select the current machine as older to
> transfer from.With a clean disc,re-installing is a good
> idea.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>For God's sake, can't Microsoft make it easier to
upgrade
>>your system disk? Obviously not.
>>
>>I'm trying to replace my C: drive with a bigger, faster
>>one and I don't want to re-install Windows XP. I just
>want
>>to copy the existing drive as-is to the new one. Why is
>>that so hard? I've been working on this now for 2 days.
>>Anyone have a recipe for success?
>>
>>Dave
>>.
>>
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[Dave]

That's exactly what I tried, but it insisted on making the
new drive D: and not C: and it would not let me change it
even if I removed the original c: drive completely.

Dave



>-----Original Message-----
>Just to be sure: have you tried the following procedure?
>
>1. attach the new disk as slave on the same IDE channel
(assuming the old
>one is master)
>2. use whatever method you have to copy the entire disk
(or just the
>C-partition, if XP is entirely installed to that) to the
new disk
>3. reconnect the new disk as master (keep the old disk
online as slave,
>don't worry about drive letter assignments yet)
>4. it will probably fail to boot, now reboot with the XP
compact disk in the
>drive and try a repair installation using "fixboot"
and "fixmbr"
>
>
>Andre
>
>
>"Dave" > wrote in message
...
>> I don't have an older machine. I'm just trying to
replace
>> the drive in the one machine I have.
>>
>> Microsoft sucks! They are more interested in protecting
>> themselves from pirates then providing an easy to use
>> product for paying customers. And I'm a stockholder....
>>
>> Shame on you, Bill.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> > From what i heard,when i tried the same with western
>> > digital,it can't be done.XP has protective software
>> > installed preventing this.The best info.,use the file
>> > transfer wizard,select the current machine as older to
>> > transfer from.With a clean disc,re-installing is a
good
>> > idea.
>> >>-----Original Message-----
>> >>For God's sake, can't Microsoft make it easier to
>> upgrade
>> >>your system disk? Obviously not.
>> >>
>> >>I'm trying to replace my C: drive with a bigger,
faster
>> >>one and I don't want to re-install Windows XP. I just
>> >want
>> >>to copy the existing drive as-is to the new one. Why
is
>> >>that so hard? I've been working on this now for 2
days.
>> >>Anyone have a recipe for success?
>> >>
>> >>Dave
>> >>.
>> >>
>> >.
>> >
>
>
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