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Move XP partition to another hard drive?

  • 21-03-2009 3:46pm
    #1
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭


    My brother got a new 500GB HD for his Dell laptop and I was wondering if I copied the XP partition from his old 80GB HD to the new one would it boot?
    I have Acronis Disk Director and I think that could do it with the help of my external USB drive?

    I have my doubts... it would probably break the XP install, right? :)


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  • #2
    NullZer0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭NullZer0


    You need Acronis True Image (My Favourite), Norton ghost or some similar imaging software.

    Take the image from the source harddrive to the external and then restore from the external to the destination :)

    Here is the Trial version of Acronis (Home edition - but should do the job for what you require):
    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

    HTH,

    iRock


  • #3
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Looks like Migrate Easy is the one to use, I thought Disk Director had all that stuff but they obviously changed their product line around.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    I upgraded my 40G HDD to 120G on laptop using Partition Magic. I used adaptors to add both drives to an existing laptop.

    Most of the MS Office applications wanted to "see" Install CD on first run. Everything else perfect. I resized all the partitions too.

    Make sure the drive letter for Windows Partition remains the same.

    Keep the old drive safe as a backup for a while.


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    one word of warning windows boot sector contains the number of sectors from the start of the drive. If the old partition is at the start of the drive and you put it at the start of the new drive that's ok. If the program can modify tis value that too is OK. But if you find the cloned drive just sits at a black screen then you can probably use an NT boot disk till you get it sorted.


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