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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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Upgrading System Disk
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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