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New Hard Drive -- Moving XP

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coolego1

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I got a new 200 GB Maxtor hard drive the other day and I already have 2 120GB WDs that I was using. I have Windows XP pro on one of the 120s and I want to move it to the new drive so I can run the 2 120 GB drives as a RAID 0 Array. I tried using the Maxtor MaxBlast software to copy it, but it missed 4 files in its copy and I can't get it to work in boot mode, so I can't try that. I also have tried to do a "repair install" of XP on the new drive, but it doesn't acknowledge that the new drive (an image of the old windows one) has windows on it...

Any ideas?
 
Originally posted by: coolego1
I got a new 200 GB Maxtor hard drive the other day and I already have 2 120GB WDs that I was using. I have Windows XP pro on one of the 120s and I want to move it to the new drive so I can run the 2 120 GB drives as a RAID 0 Array. I tried using the Maxtor MaxBlast software to copy it, but it missed 4 files in its copy and I can't get it to work in boot mode, so I can't try that. I also have tried to do a "repair install" of XP on the new drive, but it doesn't acknowledge that the new drive (an image of the old windows one) has windows on it...

Any ideas?
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I believe maxtor comes with software (maxblast) that will do this for you and best of all its free 🙂.
 
As I said before, I used the MaxBlast software and it didn't work. I did get Acronis True Image 8 to work well though, so thanks guys.
 
Originally posted by: ncage
Originally posted by: coolego1
I got a new 200 GB Maxtor hard drive the other day and I already have 2 120GB WDs that I was using. I have Windows XP pro on one of the 120s and I want to move it to the new drive so I can run the 2 120 GB drives as a RAID 0 Array. I tried using the Maxtor MaxBlast software to copy it, but it missed 4 files in its copy and I can't get it to work in boot mode, so I can't try that. I also have tried to do a "repair install" of XP on the new drive, but it doesn't acknowledge that the new drive (an image of the old windows one) has windows on it...

Any ideas?
Click to expand...

I believe maxtor comes with software (maxblast) that will do this for you and best of all its free 🙂.
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I wouldn't touch that MaxBlast software with someone else's computer. That sh1t has ruined so many drives for me...

I'd grab a copy of ghost or true image. Make an image and burn it to a dvd for future restores as well.

EDIT: Now I'm guilty of not reading the OP's posts. Glad TI worked for you.
 
Go Acronis! Have it auto-create the bootable CD, use it and select CLONE DISK. Do the cloning operation in Manual mode. It's a piece of cake.
 
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