Transfer XP to bigger hard drive
- From: "Ken M" <KenM@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:13:11 -0400
I'm trying to transfer XP Home SP2 to a bigger hard drive. 120GB->250GB. I
installed the new drive as a secondary, and used the Data Lifeguard tools
that came with the new drive (Western Digital) to move all the files over
fom the old one. I told the tools I wanted to create a bootable drive and
supposedly it did everything needed to make a bootable drive. All the files
seem to have been copied over OK to the new drive. I did a scandisk and
defrag, with no errors.
So I took out the old drive and jumpered the new one to be master. The PC
boots to the point where XP starts, but then the PC restarts after 15
seconds or so. I tried starting XP in Safe Mode, but got the same result.
If I select the "Windows" option instead of "XP" on the XP boot screen,
nothing happens at all.
Assuming Data Lifeguard copied over all the files OK, is there something in
the registry that could be messing me up? Maybe related to the business
about support for >137GB drives? Could a "repair" from the XP boot CD help?
Might I expect better results with Norton Ghost?
Thanks.
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