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I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with instructions that don't seem to work. Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full reinstall? A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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"Paul Floyd" wrote in message ... Hi I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with instructions that don't seem to work. Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full reinstall? A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr You have three options: a) Clone the old disk to the new disk and pray because this is unlikely to work. b) Use an advanced imaging tool such as Acronis TrueImage with Universal Restore. c) Re-install Windows and all applications. Option c) is likely to deliver the best result. |
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Hi
I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with instructions that don't seem to work. Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full reinstall? A bientot Paul Bonjour; http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341 How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694 How to move a Windows installation to different hardware John |
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the simplest method is to take the old hard
drive out and install it as a master drive in the new pc. then take the drive in the new pc and make it into a slave drive. afterwards get your winxp cd and boot with it. then initiate a repair installation to synchronize the system files to your new configuration. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com - nntp Postologist ~ "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Paul Floyd" wrote in message ... Hi I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with instructions that don't seem to work. Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full reinstall? A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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As mentioned, Acronis TrueImage with Universal Restore may work.
Also, LapLink's PCMover has worked for me in your situtation. .. "Paul Floyd" wrote in message ... Hi I'm in the process of moving an install from one PC to another. If I can avoid it I'd rather not reinstall everything. I have done a copy of the boot partition from one of the old disks to one of the new disks. I've looked on google, and there seem to be millions of pages, all with instructions that don't seem to work. Is there any simple procedure for setting up the boot and/or services to get XP to boot on the new PC? Or do I bite the bullet and do a full reinstall? A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:05:20 -1000, John Keiser
wrote: As mentioned, Acronis TrueImage with Universal Restore may work. Also, LapLink's PCMover has worked for me in your situtation. Hi I doubt that either of these will be an option for me, as I suppose that they require a working Windows installation on the source machine. A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:34:20 -0600, db wrote:
the simplest method is to take the old hard drive out and install it as a master drive in the new pc. then take the drive in the new pc and make it into a slave drive. afterwards get your winxp cd and boot with it. then initiate a repair installation to synchronize the system files to your new configuration. Master drive? It's a SCSI disk, and sadly the old-ish HBA doesn't seem to be bootable in the new PC. A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:15:47 -0400, John John - MVP
wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341 How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP Hi Thanks for the suggestions. I've followed this, including removing ie7/8. Now my problem seems to be getting the PC to boot. I have SATA disk 1: partition 1 FreeDOS SATA disk 2: partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (destination) SCSI id 1 has an NTFS data logical partition SCSI id 2 partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (source) also has a FAT logical partition I'm using OpenSolaris grub to boot (from partition 2 on SATA disk1, which is active). If I try to chainload the Windows XP partition, the PC just resets back to the BIOS boot screen. Any ideas? A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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Paul Floyd wrote:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:15:47 -0400, John John - MVP wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341 How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP Hi Thanks for the suggestions. I've followed this, including removing ie7/8. Now my problem seems to be getting the PC to boot. I have SATA disk 1: partition 1 FreeDOS SATA disk 2: partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (destination) SCSI id 1 has an NTFS data logical partition SCSI id 2 partition 1 Windows XP NTFS (source) also has a FAT logical partition I'm using OpenSolaris grub to boot (from partition 2 on SATA disk1, which is active). If I try to chainload the Windows XP partition, the PC just resets back to the BIOS boot screen. Any ideas? To do the in-place upgrade boot with the Windows XP CD, don't try to boot the drive. John |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:06 -0400, John John - MVP
wrote: To do the in-place upgrade boot with the Windows XP CD, don't try to boot the drive. I've done the repair install, this is attempting to boot after that. A bientot Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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Paul Floyd wrote:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:06 -0400, John John - MVP wrote: To do the in-place upgrade boot with the Windows XP CD, don't try to boot the drive. I've done the repair install, this is attempting to boot after that. I would start by temporarily disabling/removing all unnecessary disks and third party boot loader and see if the Windows XP installation can be successfully moved and repaired without these other things in the picture. Redo the in-place upgrade after you disable the unnecessary stuff, if the installation can be successfully repaired then reintroduce the other disk and third party boot manager, if it can't be repaired then you know that the other disks and boot manager are not part of the problem and a wipe and clean install will be in order. John |
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:23:00 -0400, John John - MVP
wrote: I would start by temporarily disabling/removing all unnecessary disks and third party boot loader and see if the Windows XP installation can be successfully moved and repaired without these other things in the picture. Redo the in-place upgrade after you disable the unnecessary stuff, if the installation can be successfully repaired then reintroduce the other disk and third party boot manager, if it can't be repaired then you know that the other disks and boot manager are not part of the problem and a wipe and clean install will be in order. In the end it just took a bit more grub configuration. I needed to add a couple of 'map' lines to get it to work: title Windows XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 A+ Paul -- Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr |
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