Copying XP to new hard drive

[morganlefay]

Nihil is right...if you are trying to take the old install into new hardware....it wont boot.

You used to be able to do that with NT 4.0...you just removed all the 3rd party drivers and moved the harddrive\install to new hardware...then reinstall the drivers.

But this fwent away with 2000.....and definately XP.

There is the files and setting transfer wizard....not sure if its available in XP home....this may be your option.....although I have never used it???

As suggested earlier...use the old drive as a slave and copy the data after the fresh install.

MLF

[VAIO]

Well i am using Ghost right now to copy everything to the new drive. It has an estimated time of a little over an hour and half left. So we will see if it works.

[nihil]

Keep us posted mate!

If it works, then you realise what it says about the vainglorious MS Windows XP copy protection methodology?

[VAIO]

Grrr... It got 90% done and gave me an RPC error. So i will maybe try and boot from the cd. I dont know.

[nihil]

Could we have the exact error message please.............this is getting better than tonight's FA Cup football match

[morganlefay]

Ya know....

Install XP on the new drive...

copy data as needed.........


Done!!

sometimes that is just the easiest.....trust me...I know

MLF

[Und3ertak3r]

Have had hells own problem with ghost 2002-2005 doing a hdd transfer ..that is Machine upgrade of C:\..ie 14gb hdd to 100gb hdd..
Now I assume that this is what is required here??

Transfer errors here can be the result of a number of thing.. the main being the systems BIOS not being fully compatable wth drives over 76GB (read here drives of 80GB labeled capacity).. actually many PIII machines didnt support over 80Gb only some of the tautalin boards.
The fact the BIOS is reporting the presence an size of the HDD is NOT an indication that the BIOS fully supports that size.. Check the mobo manufacturer.. you may be able to cheat by a BIOS update..

As for software.. There is far better drive clone software out there than Norton Ghost..

arconis true Image?

[VAIO]

Don't remember exactly what it was... but there were no error codes or anything. It was something to the effect of :

"Error loading (maybe finding?) remote procedure call" Not quite sure. Sorry. But it was only one line and didnt really say much other than there was an RPC error and the process couldn't be finished.

[morganlefay]

All advice is already posted............

sometimes its just easier to start from scratch.....

slave drive and copy data....KISS

MLF

[Aspman]

the grandparents are old and senile and need to be able to save things to the default C drive

Think sideways my friend.

Leave the old drive in attach the new as a slave.
Put a Shortcut on the desktop to the new drive and call it "C:" or "My Stuff" or something.
Move all their old stuff into it.
In the real C: where they were storing all their stuff put another shortcut to the new "C:" or "My stuff" whatever you call it.

They'll get it quick enough if every sign points them to it. They still go to the old location but all they will find is a link to the new.