Re: Transferring hard disks with XP to new PC

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Thanks Thomas that worked.

It was however a HUGE PAIN IN THE A.

I really can't believe it was so painful, the first trouble I had was, as a
wireless PC, it had lost the config and I had to phone to reactivate.

Secondly, and I've noticed this on a few PCs, the startup after logging on
takes about 10 times linger on a new PC with more RAM and a much faster
CPU....you go figure.

Anyhow, thanks again.


Mark

"Thomas Wendell" wrote:

> Courtesy of Rick "Nutcase" Rogers
> (Who might get tired writing these sentences every 2hours...)
> =================================
>
> Do a repair install with the new hardware installed. Follow these steps to
> do a repair install which should preserve your data, settings, and
> programs:
>
> 1. Insert the Windows XP CD into your computer's CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM
> drive.
> 2. Restart your computer. If you have to, change the BIOS settings to start
> from the CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer
> again.
> 3. At the "Welcome to Setup" page, press ENTER.
> 4. Press F8 to accept the Licensing Agreement.
> 5. Use the arrow keys to select the installation of Windows XP that you want
> to repair, and then press R to start the automatic repair process.
> 6. When Setup is completed, activate Windows XP.
>
> Note that you will need your Product Key for this procedure, so have it
> handy before you begin.
>
> You also need to install all updates and hotfixes.
>
> --
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>
>
>
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Bought a new barebones PC and want to transfer my old hard disk with XP
> pro
> > on it to the new machine.
> >
> > Back in the good old / bad old days of Win98 etc, it was easy to do this
> as
> > Windows saw IDE as IDE and made no other requests to the system to fine
> tune,
> > AFAIR.
> >
> > Now though if I transfer the drive I get a reboot, safe mode does the
> same.
> >
> > I can furnish more info from the boot log if required later but does
> anyone
> > have a sure fire way of getting the GUI up and running so that it can
> start
> > updating drivers etc.
> >
> > Oh, I'm also transferring the cdrom, dvdrw and most importantly the AGP
> > graphics card so it's not an issue with that.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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