Re: Moving hard drive to another machine
From: Art (notaname_at_notanisp)
Date: 07/15/04
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:56:32 -0400
"Ron Martell" <ron@onlinehelp.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> "Art" <notaname@notanisp> wrote:
>
> >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
> >
>
> Boot the new desktop machine with a Windows 98 Startup Disk and then
> run
>
> FDISK /STATUS
>
> Does it show any partitions at all on the drive?
>
> You could also try using MBRWORK from the free utilities section at
> www.bootitng.com
>
> I have used it before to find "lost" partitions on a hard drive.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
Ron:
As I indicated in my posting there's no problem involving a "lost"
partition. The XP install disk "sees" the formatted partition during Setup.
It just doesn't "see" that there's a Windows OS on that partition. Thus, no
Repair option is available during Setup.
Art
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