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Name: TazG
Date: January 14, 2004 at 05:40:20 Pacific
Subject: Copy from old to new hard drive
OS: Windows XP Home SP1
CPU/Ram: 2.2 GHz Celeron 256 MB RA

Comment:

Hi.
I have copied XP from my old hard drive to my new one using a partition image program. When I booted from the new hard drive, it said Operating System not found. I tried copying the MBR from the old drive but that just made it unreadable because it also copied the partition table, and the partitions were different on the new drive.
So, how would I get this to work?

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Response Number 1

Name: Waz
Date: January 14, 2004 at 06:25:40 Pacific
Subject: Copy from old to new hard drive

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I have found NORTON Ghost to be very good at clonning hard drive's.
Allso be sure you have the new hard drive jumpers set to master (IE THE ONE YOU ARE COPYING TO)and the old one set to slave.
One more thing make sure that you don't change any hardware as XP DOES NOT CLONE FROM ONE MACHINE TO ANOTHER if you try it won't work no matter what you do (FRESH INSTALL TIME IF YOU CHANGE ANY HARDWARE).
If you do use NORTON GHOST make sure you know which hard drive is installed Where (IE i have 2 hard drives on the same lead and they show up in device manager as Location 0 (0) and Location 1 (1) (Location 1 (1)is my second hard while Location 0 (0)is the one with Windows Xp on it)
I hope this help's.

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Response Number 2

Name: TazG
Date: January 14, 2004 at 07:05:50 Pacific
Subject: Copy from old to new hard drive

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The program I am using doesn't let me clone the whole disk, just partitions, and the partitions aren't the same on both disks so copying the MBR screws up the partitions. It seems like it should be a simple matter to just teach the MBR on the second drive how to boot Windows... I don't feel like spending money on Ghost.

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