Hi,
I am having difficulty setting up Windows XP on a new hard drive. What we're trying to do is install a new hard drive that contains the contents of the old hard drive. The old hard drive has Windows XP on it. I'm sure there is wasy to do it, but I have not figured out how. My experience has been with Win 9x, which I think is part of the problem.
Story So Far
I am helping a friend add a new Maxtor 120GB hard drive to a Windows XP system with a 40GB hard drive (32-bit FAT). We partitioned and formated the hard drive using Mactor's software; this was done on my PC, which is running Win ME. The drive was setup with a 32-bit FAT. My friend used Norton Ghost (from Norton System Works 2002) to copy the contents from his 40GB hard drive to the new 120GB hard drive. The PC is set up with the 120 GB drive as the master by placing the drive at the end of the IDE cable and setting the jumper to cable select, and 40 GB drive as the slave by placing the drive in the middle of the IDE cable and setting the jumper to cable select. When Windows XP boots, the 40 GB drive is the C drive and the 120 GB is the F drive. The DVD and CD-RW drives are D and E. Windows XP has access to the drives so everything shows up fine. How do we make the 120 GB the boot drive (C drive). I understand that you can assign drive letters in Windows XP (MS knowledge base 307844, HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP), but I'm hestitant about doing this because we're not sure which drive the PC is booting from. For instance, is he booting from the 120 GB, and the registry points to the C drive to complete booting process. If we remove the 40GB from the PC, the PC boots to a Win XP screen and hangs. If we remove the 120 GB and make the 40 GB the master, the system runs fine.
Is the problem: (1) partitioning the 120 GB hard drive on Win ME; (2) cloning the drive with Norton Ghost. Is the problem easily correctable? Where did we go wrong? This method works perfectly fine with Win 9x.
Daddio1949
I am having difficulty setting up Windows XP on a new hard drive. What we're trying to do is install a new hard drive that contains the contents of the old hard drive. The old hard drive has Windows XP on it. I'm sure there is wasy to do it, but I have not figured out how. My experience has been with Win 9x, which I think is part of the problem.
Story So Far
I am helping a friend add a new Maxtor 120GB hard drive to a Windows XP system with a 40GB hard drive (32-bit FAT). We partitioned and formated the hard drive using Mactor's software; this was done on my PC, which is running Win ME. The drive was setup with a 32-bit FAT. My friend used Norton Ghost (from Norton System Works 2002) to copy the contents from his 40GB hard drive to the new 120GB hard drive. The PC is set up with the 120 GB drive as the master by placing the drive at the end of the IDE cable and setting the jumper to cable select, and 40 GB drive as the slave by placing the drive in the middle of the IDE cable and setting the jumper to cable select. When Windows XP boots, the 40 GB drive is the C drive and the 120 GB is the F drive. The DVD and CD-RW drives are D and E. Windows XP has access to the drives so everything shows up fine. How do we make the 120 GB the boot drive (C drive). I understand that you can assign drive letters in Windows XP (MS knowledge base 307844, HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP), but I'm hestitant about doing this because we're not sure which drive the PC is booting from. For instance, is he booting from the 120 GB, and the registry points to the C drive to complete booting process. If we remove the 40GB from the PC, the PC boots to a Win XP screen and hangs. If we remove the 120 GB and make the 40 GB the master, the system runs fine.
Is the problem: (1) partitioning the 120 GB hard drive on Win ME; (2) cloning the drive with Norton Ghost. Is the problem easily correctable? Where did we go wrong? This method works perfectly fine with Win 9x.
Daddio1949
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