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Can I transfer Windows Xp

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peterthm

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Hello, I just got a new hard drive, to replace some older ones, and would like to know if it is possible to transfer Windows Xp from one hard drive to the other. I was thinking of making an image of the xp partition and restoring it on the new hard drive. Will this work? Other suggestions?
 
images work great, i use acronis true image.

Just time consuming if you have a large amount of data
 
Menelmarar said:
Last time I needed to clone a disk, was on my laptop. I used this app: http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm
Completely free.
Works in the windows environment using shadowcopy.
Worked flawlessly.
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Hmmm, that looks pretty interesting.
Theory of Operation said:
XXCLONE views a Windows disk as a collection of files and directories and with a few exceptions, its access to data on the disk is carried out as a logical (file) access operations using the standard Windows file I/O Application Program Interface (API).

Whereas, nearly all of competing products on the market that are designed for disk cloning operations access the disk using physical, low-level (sector to sector) device I/O technique.

In short, XXCLONE is a special purpose file-copy utility with extra features to make the target volume self-bootable (this portion of the operation still requires low-level disk I/O). It is not a disk-imaging tool that treats a disk as a collection of sectors. Much of XXCLONE's advantages is a result this fundamental difference to its competing products.
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I frequently use Drive SnapShot via BartPE to backup hard drives to a network drive.
 
Latest update: I haven't been having much success. my best results were with a program called clonezilla but i only could get to my desktop and no programs would load and explorer.exe wasn't working properly. I tried the program off the western digital website but windows wouldn't even boot. also tried norton ghost but it only got to a blue screen with the windows logo (not a BSOD), after the windows loading screen, and there i could move the mouse but it did nothing else.
I've tried partition to partition, partition to image to partition, SATA/idei'm drives, partition of the same size.
I'm going to try out xxclone now and some of the other software.
thanks
 
xxclone works! I also changed from fat32 to ntfs. thanks for the suggestion Menelmarar.
Now I just have a (relatively) minor problem. When I boot into XP my three partitions are labeled c, i and j. Is there any way to get them as c, d and e?
thanks.
 
Your welcome. Try this for your drive letters.

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

You can right click your drives and select "Change Drive Letter..." It won't work for a drive you are booted off of.
 
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