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Copying windows XP installation
Name: Ashwin Date: July 28, 2002 at 00:09:46 Pacific
Comment:
Will I be able to copy an installed copy of windows XP from one drive to another without having to reinstall it again. I don't wanna lose all my installed programs? I have tried Norton Ghost 2002 - it clones the disk but windows xp stops booting up just befroe the login screen and freezes!
Name: M1ckr1ck Date: July 28, 2002 at 04:38:10 Pacific
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I've never had a problem with Ghost 2002. I made an image of my hard disk when I had WinXP and OfficeXP installed and configured correctly and Everytime I need to reinstall I just load the image from cd.
Make sure you use a Ghost floppy disk to create your image. Use a Win98SE boot floppy to boot to the command prompt (no cd support) and use ghostpe.exe on another floppy to run Ghost. The rest is plain sailing.
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Response Number 2
Name: Ashwin Kumar Date: July 29, 2002 at 10:00:13 Pacific
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The partition to which I'm copying has a larger (10Gb as against 4 GB of the older one) Does it matter?
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I can't start my comp!
