Re: Moving hard drive to another machine

From: joust in jest (jest_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:20:29 -0700

Use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to transfer files and settings.

steve

"Art" <notaname@notanisp> wrote in message
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> The user has an HP notebook that she's disposing of. We want to move the
> entire contents of her hard drive to a desktop computer after which her
> present notebook's hard drive will be formatted so that the XP (Home
> edition) will be removed from the notebook.
>
> We cloned her notebook's HD to an external hard drive and then cloned the
> latter to the internal HD on the new desktop computer. Naturally it will
not
> boot to a Desktop nor boot in Safe Mode, as we anticipated. The problem is
> that when we boot with the new XP install disk (new retail version of XP
> Home), there's no Repair install facility available. XP doesn't "see" the
> previous Windows installation; it just sees the formatted partition and
will
> only allow us to make a new install of the OS on that partition, or delete
> the partition. We assume that this is because the XP OS on the desktop
> computer's drive is an OEM version.
>
> Is there any way around this dilemma? I note we can access the Recovery
> console from the XP install disk. I wonder if there's some way to achieve
> the objective through that avenue? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Art
>
>

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