DTYtsejam24 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 i wanna move windows xp from one drive to another, i was thinkin of just using gparted and just copying the partition over to the new drive but i dont know if thatll work. any one ever done this before and can point me in the right direction? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 its not going to work that way. maybe you could explain why you wanted to move it from one drive to another and we can think of some alternatives to achive your goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTYtsejam24 Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 yeah i didnt think it would work that way but i wanted to move it becausei have it on an old 120 gig hard dirve, and i got a new 200 gig much faster drive for my birthday and i wanted to swap in the 200 as my internal hard drive and use my 120 as an external and im not wanting to have to reinstall windows cause i have it set up fairly nice the way i like it so i kinda just wanna move the whole system from the one drive to the other. ive heard of it being done but im not sure how Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 it MIGHT work if you installed it on your target drive and then moved your original installation (doing this should set up the boot loader correctly) however, i am very possibly wrong on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I have no idea if this would work.. but what if you copy over the image and then install windows on top of that... according to Vako this will wont kill your data.. that combined with "Windows File And Settings Transfer Wizard" should give you what you started with... now all you need is someone who knows what there talking about to tell you if this will work or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 You could do a bit for bit copy using dd (some one else please give him the command, I don;t know how to use dd) with a live linux distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 2 Options: 1: Image the current harddrive to the new one. Norton Ghost (i think) or something like that. As sparda says, it just copies the drive bit-for-bit. Should work ok. 2: Do a clean install of windows and use the MS settings transfer wizard to do copy the settings. When you reinstall XP over XP you have an option to just remove the current windows install (the XP dir etc) leaving anything which isn't windows intact. Then it reinstalls a fresh copy of XP in its place. This doesn't copy any settings, and all your programs + windows updates will need reinstalling. But it does mean that if you only have one HD, you don't have to backup the lot to optical media if windows borks. If you really really don't want to start again with windows, i'd go with the first option. Never done it myself but my dad swears by it and he's been working with computers for longer than i've been alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcvoid Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I agree. Ghost it - if you do a disk-to-disk clone, it resizes automatically. If you still want to use the old HD with the windows installation on it, you might have some SID problems, not not mention some legal ones if you don't have licenses. That's how we copy HD's at work where we manage 700 (almost) identical systems, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Can some one actualy explain how to use dd to do a bit for bit copy of a drive, I would like to know. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevronX Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I say format and reinstall new, and just back your data to a new partition, that way you will be sure you are getting the best speed from your computer instead of Windows Rot from your old hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freakish Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I would just get a raid card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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