Upgrading System Disk

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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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 su 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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