How to move WindowXP from small HD to large HD?

[jndoggett]

I just bought WD160GB HD. I would like to move WindowXP op from the small HD (Seagate 80 GB) to WD. I had tried to use Ghost and Drive Image to do the job. Both can copy op to a new large drive, but when I try to boot from WD (I took out Seagate & made WD primary), the computer won't boot at all. Does anyone have an idea of what I have done wrong?

Source Seagate C: 5GB WindowXP PRO D: 75GB
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Target WD C: 10GB D: 150GB

 

[cchen]

Try imaging using ghost again. I used it before and sometimes it doesn't work right all the time.

 

[fredtam]

Use the data lifguard tools from Western Digital

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Drive copy from Powerquest.

 

[chocoruacal]

You have Ghost...so do the following...do a drive to drive transfer. You were probably trying a partition to partition, which doesn't copy over the boot record. When you do the drive to drive, you'll end up with the 5 gig XP partition plus one other partition with the whatever is left. It will not make a 5 and 75, so don't worry about that. Your other option is to partition-->partition the two and then do a repair installation on the C:. Thats a waste of time though IMO.

 

[jndoggett]

Originally posted by: chocoruacal
You have Ghost...so do the following...do a drive to drive transfer. You were probably trying a partition to partition, which doesn't copy over the boot record. When you do the drive to drive, you'll end up with the 5 gig XP partition plus one other partition with the whatever is left. It will not make a 5 and 75, so don't worry about that. Your other option is to partition-->partition the two and then do a repair installation on the C:. Thats a waste of time though IMO.

Thanks to everyone for your help. I was using partition to partition option. In Ghost, there is a disk to disk option but no drive to drive option. Chocoruacal, did you mean disk by any chance? And that it will make a 5 & 155? But I'm planning to increase my new C drive to 10 GB (a 10 & 150), any suggestions?

 

[Rob G.]

I've never managed to get Ghost to successfully copy an XP installation from one hard drive to another. XP always fails to boot properly (using hanging just before the logon prompt appears). I think there's some jiggery-pokery you have to do first for XP - it's probably on the Symantec site.

 

[chocoruacal]

Originally posted by: jndoggett
Chocoruacal, did you mean disk by any chance? And that it will make a 5 & 155? But I'm planning to increase my new C drive to 10 GB (a 10 & 150), any suggestions?

Heh...yeah, my bad..disk to disk. 5gb is more than enough for the OS. Put everything else on another partition...when you need to reformat you'll thank us. If you absolutely have to change things around.

1. Create new 10 gig part.
2. Partition copy old 5 gig to new 10 gig.
3. Boot from XP CD and fixmbr via the repair console or do a repair installation. That should take care of the boot record and you should be good to go.

 

[poppyq]

No need to create the new partitions, during the ghost disk-to-disk copy you can change the partition sizes on the fly. I've done disk-to-disk successfully on XP, even going from and IDE to a SATA drive.

 

[NokiaDude]

Use the disk from WD included with the HD. It can make a complete drive to drive copy.

 

[jndoggett]

Thanks to everyone who helped me. I finally made it by using DriveImaging (from PowerQuest)

1.Choose Disk to Disk
2.When you reach Ready to copy Disk to Disk, Click "Advance"
3.Uncheck "hiding patition" on both the source & destination, it's very important.
4.When asked to reboot, just power off pc
5.Remove OLD HD, Make NEW HD primary

Done! Now I have a new problem, how can I change the 2nd patition(in new HD) from drive "G" to drive "D"? Can anyone give me a hint?

 

[poppyq]

you have to go to disk management and change it, right click on my computer, choose manage, then choose disk management, right click on the G: partition in the right pane and choose change drive letter and choose what you want it to be

 

[jndoggett]

Thank you very much!!!!!