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Can you clone your hard drive to another hard drive even the operating system?
thank you
Hp Pavillion a1010n
Asus P4GV-LA Motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
160 Gb Hard Drive
512 pc3200 Mb of Ram
3000 Mb G-force 66666666666666GT
Windows Xp Home Edition

Hi,
Symantec Ghost or
Acronis Drive ImageThe manufacturer of the new hard disk will probably have software on their web site to do this.
With a new hard disk you may need to reactivate XP, so a clean install may be a better option.
Backup all your documents, pictures, music etc.
Then use the old hard disk as a backup drive. Internally or in an external enclosure.
hth
Ceri

HDD manufacturer's supply software for that exact purpose. The CD usually comes with the new HDD, if not, you can download it from their website
ASUS A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 1800+
8.5 x 200MHz
1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

Hi
having just used this product to clone old hdd to spanking new sata with absolutley no problems, done in 3 clicks i can say this was unbeleivable (no i dont get paid for saying this lol) also didnt even need to reactivate xp.http://www.acronis.com/promo/ATI/true-image-003.html?type=true+image9
wether it was worth it for 1 time, up to you, i'll certainly use it again in the future.
regards

If you install the cloned hard disk into the same computer that the original came from you wont have to reactivate XP.
It is only when you try to install the cloned disk in a different computer that you will run into activation problems.
Stuart

If it works at all!
You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users

but how can the hard drive know if it is a different computer?
Thank YouHp Pavillion a1010n
Asus P4GV-LA Motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
160 Gb Hard Drive
512 pc3200 Mb of Ram
64 Mb G-force 66666666666666GT
Windows Xp Home Edition

>> but how can the hard drive know if it is a different computer? <<
The drive doesn't know, thats just a piece of dumb hardware, but Windows certainly does. Windows knows exactly what it is running on.
Stuart

Oh,Okay thank you cause i was going to get one of those big hard drives like the Hitachi 500GB and clone my 160 GB Seagate to it and give the 160Gb to my dad so he can have a big hard drive and Windows XP
Hp Pavillion a1010n
Asus P4GV-LA Motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
160 Gb Hard Drive
512 pc3200 Mb of Ram
64 Mb G-force 66666666666666GT
Windows Xp Home Edition

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