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winXp, replacing harddrive, need help

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Cosmic_Horror

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hi all,

i have been asked to insatll a new hardd rive for a friend of mine, but she needs the system up asap.
does anyone have a step by step approach to copyng one hard drive over to a new one in winXP , preferable with out having to go out and buy any software. thanks 🙂

 
Your drive manufacturer should have a utility you can download that will clone the old one to the new one. I know the Maxtor one works if at least one of the drives are Maxtors.
 
If you know anybody with Norton System Works 2002. Maybe they can make you a Norton Ghost 2002 boot disk...

Ghost in general is a tiny program that only takes a single floppy. Then all you would have to do is to plug in both drives at the same time, boot the system and copy from one drive to another.

System works can be bought for about $10 right now (online) because the new version is about to come out...

 

If you don't want to purchase any new software you can always do it the somewhat long way by doing a backup/restore.

Just use ntbackup to backup the whole computer somewhere (like a file on the local drive).
Then just do an install of XP on the new drive. Don't bother applying patches/drivers.
Do a restore from the old stuff directly over the top of the new.
Reboot and you are done.

You can also give the automated system recovery wizard (ASR) a try. It's part of ntbackup - see helpfiles.
 
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