🚀 go-pugleaf

From what I can gather, you cannot clone XP from one hard disk to
another, remove the old hard disk and boot with the new harddisk.

1. WPA relies on both the VolumeID and geometry of the hardisk it was
installed / upgraded on.  Therefore any changes (like duplicating to a
new HD) will prevent XP from booting stops just before boot up.  The
reasoning seems to be that M$ thinks all people are pirates and anyone
using disk clone utils like Ghost and Drive Image are simply cloning
XP for others, thus losing them $$$$$.  As for people mentioning Ghost
2002 being XP compatible, that doesn't mean you can get it to clone XP
and boot off the new disk.  It just means it works with XP.

2. XP will boot if both the old and new HDs are connected.  A friend
told me that if you clone to another HD and make the new HD the
master, the old HD (slave) will still appear as C: in XP and you won't
be able to change it.  Also, a side effect of this is that people say
disk access slows down horrendously (a bug in XP??).

3. You might be able to reactivate XP to use your new HD as the master
C: drive by going through the WPA screen.  Connect New HD as master,
old HD as slave (so that XP boots up) then use
\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a. Perhaps someone could try it and post
the results?

Swij


On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:08:25 GMT, "aaron" <aaronp@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

>i tried to do it with partition magic 7 as it was easier to set up and use.
>it seemed to work, looks identical, resized and all, but when i swapped the
>ice cables to make the new drive c, and re-booted, it sounded as if it was
>loading a fair bit (too much) from the old c, so i shut down, unplugged the
>old c completely, then started up again with only the new drive in. it
>loaded to the blue welcome type screen, with a windows xp pro logo, then
>stopped there. had to re-boot. seems it didn't work properly after all. any
>suggestions? should i delete the new drive back to scratch and try ghost?
>should it have worked with part magic? i am at a loss as i can't see why it
>wouldn't work...
>
>--
>Thanks,
>                  Aaron.