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How to migrate my XP x64 install to a new drive?

J

jrgeoffrion

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I am currently using XP x64 on my machine (that you guys helped build) running a RAID 0+1. After thinking about it, I really think that the RAID was a bad move -- although I've been living with it for a year. I would like to "migrate" my system disk (OS, applications, and settings) to a single Raptor drive.

Is there a way to do that without having to do a "fresh" install and just "mirror" the RAID 0+1 system partition on the Raptor drive?

If I have to re-install all the software, it's not worth it and I'll live with my RAID 0+1, but if it's minimal issue, I'd love to migrate it.

Can this be done (relatively easily)?

Thanks in advance,

JR
 
I forgot to mention that, of course, the XP x64 is a legit copy and that I do want to remove the RAID 0+1 on which it is installed and just use it for data storage (no OS).
 
You might try this, and I'm not sure if it'll work:

1) hook up a USB drive with enough capacity to hold your OS and programs. Get it a drive letter and etc.

2) install a floppy disk drive, format a floppy and error-check it

3) run an Automated System Recovery backup using the Microsoft Backup included with XP Pro. Save the backup to the USB drive. It will make a floppy to go with that.

4) unplug all non-essential drives, leaving just the new boot drive, and begin Windows Setup from CD-ROM, hitting the F2 key for Automated System Recovery right at the start when it prompts you to. Windows Setup will remember this, and later it'll ask you for the location of the ASR backup you made. Hook up your USB drive, feed it your floppy diskette, and let it carry on.


I haven't tried this with XP Pro, but I have with Windows Server 2003. It accomplished a bare-metal recovery on an entirely dissimilar computer (AMD v. Intel, SCSI v. IDE, different chipset, everything) with only a minor hitch that relates to Active Directory domains (it needed a network driver that it didn't have). I also used a little sleight-of-hand to transfer the ASR backup file using a DVD-R.

So if you want to try an experiment, there you go.
 
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