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  #91  
Old January 12th 04, 03:01 PM
chrisv
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Default How Move OS XP from Old to New HD?

"Rod Speed" wrote:

I now have 62 GB of free space. I can store a n y t h i n g !


Wont hold my magnum opus, or the HD video of
my latest exploits with sheep goats and camels.


Ahh... Now the truth comes out.

And dont try claiming that you dont want either of them,
we can here the panting on the other side of the world.


Or the de-panting.

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  #92  
Old January 12th 04, 06:21 PM
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"Rod Speed" claimed:
Timothy Daniels wrote in
message ...

1) I have never used a "ute" other than MS's Disk Manager
(to remove partitions) and Drive Image (to clone a drive).


What did you do when the clone wouldnt boot ?



I used a different channel combination to do the copy.
I had 4 IDE channels available - 2 ATA/133 channels on
a PCI controller card, 2 ATA/33 channels on the mobo.
Each could take either one or two HDDs. Copying from
one PCI card channel to another card channel, copying
from Master to Slave on a single card channel, copying
from one mobo channel to another all wouldn't work.
Only copying from Master to Slave on the same mobo
channel would produce a bootable drive.
PowerQuest/ Symantec tech reps had no idea why, but
guessed that it had to do with the slower speed of the mobo.
Why this only affects bootability and not file accessability
is unanswered, but once the bootable drive is produced and
booted alone once, the drive can be booted from any
channel - alone or in a pair. Basicly, the copy would only
work as advertized when done in the most common way.


*TimDaniels*
  #93  
Old January 13th 04, 10:04 PM
Pete Rahalski
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Usually, the way you'll do this conversion is to install the new drive as the master and your original drive as slave, then boot from the Maxblast diskette and choose the copy option. Once the copy is complete, pop the diskette, reboot and voila! Your 80gb
drive is now running windows XP. You would then clean off the old drive once you verify everything is ok on your new drive (all the data is there, size is approximately the same as the original). Reformatting the old drive or repartitioning it is a fast
way to do it, but only do it once you are sure everything is OK with the new drive.....
  #94  
Old January 16th 04, 10:41 AM
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Default How Move OS XP from Old to New HD?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:51:05 -0800, "xphelpdesk"

All you have to do is an ASR (Automated System Recovery) backup,
included on your XP OS. It will create an image of your HD and will
save your systems settings on a floppy disk.


Which settings?

Then, install your new HD, start the XP install and choose ASR.


In less than 1 hour you will have your PC back and the process is seamless.
You'll be amazed how much you can do with XP if you only dig into it.


I'd be concerned that this process will leave out some settings, so
that I'd find several MS duhfaults re-asserting themselves.

Details, please? Is there comprehensive documentation on what this
process does, what it keeps, what it leaves?

There have been too many cases where "automated" tools have done silly
things, and where MS has ignored or thrown away user settings, for me
to trust this sight unseen. But XP's so damn fragile that no other
way to shovel an installation from one HD to another suggests itself.



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  #95  
Old January 20th 04, 08:01 AM
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All you have to do is an ASR (Automated System Recovery) backup, included on your XP OS. It will create an image of your HD and will save your systems settings on a floppy disk.

Then, install your new HD, start the XP install and choose ASR.

In less than 1 hour you will have your PC back and the process is seamless.

You'll be amazed how much you can do with XP if you only dig into it.

Try it...
  #96  
Old February 6th 04, 04:42 AM
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Hi - I stumbled across this thread after I found myself needing to move
my XP Pro install to a new HD (old drive was starting to make very bad
noises). I used the Western Digital software that came with the new
80gig HD to do a drive copy\clone from the old drive to the new drive -
and managed to break every rule listed in this thread regarding letting
the old OS see the new drive before copying, then letting the old OS
see the new OS after copying was complete, etc. When I removed the old
drive and put the new drive in as the primary/master I got an
"Operating System Not Found" error.

At this point I figured it may be a good idea to read some instructions
...and I found this thread. Nothing like doing your research after the
fact!

Since my old drive/OS was safely out of the computer I figured I could
experiment a little to try to get the cloned OS working. Worst case -
I'd just reformat the new drive, stick the old drive back in, and
follow the directions given here, or worst worst case - start from
scratch and do a clean install.

But first, I was intrigued by the possibility of using a Win98 boot
disk to help my system "forget" it's drive letter as suggested by "I'm
Dan". I popped the 98 boot disk in and followed the directions from
"I'm Dan" given much earlier in this thread by using "fdisk /mbr". I'm
not sure if that did the trick, but I also used fdisk on the 98 boot
disk to view the drive properties and discovered that it was reporting
no active partitions on the new HD. Still using the 98 boot disk
fdisk, I set the partition as active - ignoring the warnings that this
may render any existing partitions useless. After this I rebooted and
got a Win XP BSOD - but this was further along than before, so I was
not discouraged! Next I booted up using the XP CD and selected the
repair option, then followed more directions from
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-10428.html on repairing the
boot record. It say to first use "mkboot" but that command wasn't valid
in my XP list of commands so I went on to the next instruction to
"fixmbr" which worked fine, then I finished up with "bootcfg /rebuild"
After this I rebooted and the OS loaded up just fine and once it got up
and running XP found the new HD and installed it.

It has been up and running 48 hours without issues (knock on wood!) -
all drive letters are correct and all the programs I tested out run
fine.

Not sure if I could actually recreate this to work a second time but a
little experimenting saved hours of time doing a clean install!


xpismoved!
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  #97  
Old February 6th 04, 04:47 AM
xpismoved!
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Hi - I stumbled across this thread after I found myself needing to move
my XP Pro install to a new HD (old drive was starting to make very bad
noises). I used the Western Digital software that came with the new
80gig HD to do a drive copy\clone from the old drive to the new drive -
and managed to break every rule listed in this thread regarding letting
the old OS see the new drive before copying, then letting the old OS
see the new OS after copying was complete, etc. When I removed the old
drive and put the new drive in as the primary/master I got an
"Operating System Not Found" error.

At this point I figured it may be a good idea to read some instructions
...and I found this thread. Nothing like doing your research after the
fact!

Since my old drive/OS was safely out of the computer I figured I could
experiment a little to try to get the cloned OS working. Worst case -
I'd just reformat the new drive, stick the old drive back in, and
follow the directions given here, or worst worst case - start from
scratch and do a clean install.

But first, I was intrigued by the possibility of using a Win98 boot
disk to help my system "forget" it's drive letter as suggested by "I'm
Dan". I popped the 98 boot disk in and followed the directions from
"I'm Dan" given much earlier in this thread by using "fdisk /mbr". I'm
not sure if that did the trick, but I also used fdisk on the 98 boot
disk to view the drive properties and discovered that it was reporting
no active partitions on the new HD. Still using the 98 boot disk
fdisk, I set the partition as active - ignoring the warnings that this
may render any existing partitions useless. After this I rebooted and
got a Win XP BSOD - but this was further along than before, so I was
not discouraged! Next I booted up using the XP CD and selected the
repair option, then followed more directions from
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-10428.html on repairing the
boot record. It say to first use "mkboot" but that command wasn't valid
in my XP list of commands so I went on to the next instruction to
"fixmbr" which worked fine, then I finished up with "bootcfg /rebuild"
After this I rebooted and the OS loaded up just fine and once it got up
and running XP found the new HD and installed it.

It has been up and running 48 hours without issues (knock on wood!) -
all drive letters are correct and all the programs I tested out run
fine.

Not sure if I could actually recreate this to work a second time but a
little experimenting saved hours of time doing a clean install!


xpismoved!
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  #98  
Old February 6th 04, 04:55 AM
xpismoved!
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Hi - I stumbled across this thread after I found myself needing to move
my XP Pro install to a new HD (old drive was starting to make very bad
noises). I used the Western Digital software that came with the new
80gig HD to do a drive copy\clone from the old drive to the new drive -
and managed to break every rule listed in this thread regarding letting
the old OS see the new drive before copying, then letting the old OS
see the new OS after copying was complete, etc. When I removed the old
drive and put the new drive in as the primary/master I got an
"Operating System Not Found" error.

At this point I figured it may be a good idea to read some instructions
...and I found this thread. Nothing like doing your research after the
fact!

Since my old drive/OS was safely out of the computer I figured I could
experiment a little to try to get the cloned OS working. Worst case -
I'd just reformat the new drive, stick the old drive back in, and
follow the directions given here, or worst worst case - start from
scratch and do a clean install.

But first, I was intrigued by the possibility of using a Win98 boot
disk to help my system "forget" it's drive letter as suggested by "I'm
Dan". I popped the 98 boot disk in and followed the directions from
"I'm Dan" given much earlier in this thread by using "fdisk /mbr". I'm
not sure if that did the trick, but I also used fdisk on the 98 boot
disk to view the drive properties and discovered that it was reporting
no active partitions on the new HD. Still using the 98 boot disk
fdisk, I set the partition as active - ignoring the warnings that this
may render any existing partitions useless. After this I rebooted and
got a Win XP BSOD - but this was further along than before, so I was
not discouraged! Next I booted up using the XP CD and selected the
repair option, then followed more directions from
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-10428.html on repairing the
boot record. It say to first use "mkboot" but that command wasn't valid
in my XP list of commands so I went on to the next instruction to
"fixmbr" which worked fine, then I finished up with "bootcfg /rebuild"
After this I rebooted and the OS loaded up just fine and once it got up
and running XP found the new HD and installed it.

It has been up and running 48 hours without issues (knock on wood!) -
all drive letters are correct and all the programs I tested out run
fine.

Not sure if I could actually recreate this to work a second time but a
little experimenting saved hours of time doing a clean install!


xpismoved!
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  #99  
Old February 6th 04, 05:16 AM
xpismoved!
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Hi - I stumbled across this thread after I found myself needing to move
my XP Pro install to a new HD (old drive was starting to make very bad
noises). I used the Western Digital software that came with the new
80gig HD to do a drive copy\clone from the old drive to the new drive -
and managed to break every rule listed in this thread regarding letting
the old OS see the new drive before copying, then letting the old OS
see the new OS after copying was complete, etc. When I removed the old
drive and put the new drive in as the primary/master I got an
"Operating System Not Found" error.

At this point I figured it may be a good idea to read some instructions
...and I found this thread. Nothing like doing your research after the
fact!

Since my old drive/OS was safely out of the computer I figured I could
experiment a little to try to get the cloned OS working. Worst case -
I'd just reformat the new drive, stick the old drive back in, and
follow the directions given here, or worst worst case - start from
scratch and do a clean install.

But first, I was intrigued by the possibility of using a Win98 boot
disk to help my system "forget" it's drive letter as suggested by "I'm
Dan". I popped the 98 boot disk in and followed the directions from
"I'm Dan" given much earlier in this thread by using "fdisk /mbr". I'm
not sure if that did the trick, but I also used fdisk on the 98 boot
disk to view the drive properties and discovered that it was reporting
no active partitions on the new HD. Still using the 98 boot disk
fdisk, I set the partition as active - ignoring the warnings that this
may render any existing partitions useless. After this I rebooted and
got a Win XP BSOD - but this was further along than before, so I was
not discouraged! Next I booted up using the XP CD and selected the
repair option, then followed more directions from
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-10428.html on repairing the
boot record. It say to first use "mkboot" but that command wasn't valid
in my XP list of commands so I went on to the next instruction to
"fixmbr" which worked fine, then I finished up with "bootcfg /rebuild"
After this I rebooted and the OS loaded up just fine and once it got up
and running XP found the new HD and installed it.

It has been up and running 48 hours without issues (knock on wood!) -
all drive letters are correct and all the programs I tested out run
fine.

Not sure if I could actually recreate this to work a second time but a
little experimenting saved hours of time doing a clean install!


xpismoved!
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  #100  
Old February 6th 04, 05:25 AM
xpismoved!
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Hi - I stumbled across this thread after I found myself needing to move
my XP Pro install to a new HD (old drive was starting to make very bad
noises). I used the Western Digital software that came with the new
80gig HD to do a drive copy\clone from the old drive to the new drive -
and managed to break every rule listed in this thread regarding letting
the old OS see the new drive before copying, then letting the old OS
see the new OS after copying was complete, etc. When I removed the old
drive and put the new drive in as the primary/master I got an
"Operating System Not Found" error.

At this point I figured it may be a good idea to read some instructions
...and I found this thread. Nothing like doing your research after the
fact!

Since my old drive/OS was safely out of the computer I figured I could
experiment a little to try to get the cloned OS working. Worst case -
I'd just reformat the new drive, stick the old drive back in, and
follow the directions given here, or worst worst case - start from
scratch and do a clean install.

But first, I was intrigued by the possibility of using a Win98 boot
disk to help my system "forget" it's drive letter as suggested by "I'm
Dan". I popped the 98 boot disk in and followed the directions from
"I'm Dan" given much earlier in this thread by using "fdisk /mbr". I'm
not sure if that did the trick, but I also used fdisk on the 98 boot
disk to view the drive properties and discovered that it was reporting
no active partitions on the new HD. Still using the 98 boot disk
fdisk, I set the partition as active - ignoring the warnings that this
may render any existing partitions useless. After this I rebooted and
got a Win XP BSOD - but this was further along than before, so I was
not discouraged! Next I booted up using the XP CD and selected the
repair option, then followed more directions from
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-10428.html on repairing the
boot record. It say to first use "mkboot" but that command wasn't valid
in my XP list of commands so I went on to the next instruction to
"fixmbr" which worked fine, then I finished up with "bootcfg /rebuild"
After this I rebooted and the OS loaded up just fine and once it got up
and running XP found the new HD and installed it.

It has been up and running 48 hours without issues (knock on wood!) -
all drive letters are correct and all the programs I tested out run
fine.

Not sure if I could actually recreate this to work a second time but a
little experimenting saved hours of time doing a clean install!


xpismoved!
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  #101  
Old January 25th 05, 08:35 PM
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I had the same issue with the Microsoft Office icons not showing up
after cloning my drive with xxclone. As stated in this thread, I just
put the office cd in and did a repair, and everything is back to its
normal look and feel. This is the only negative thing I have found
with xxclone thus far in my experiences, and it took 3 minutes to fix.


 




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