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upgrading hard drive on laptop - most painless way to transfer drive image? techman41973 04-05-2005
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Posted by Steve Pearce on April 6, 2005, 11:23 am
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 On 5 Apr 2005 22:05:28 -0700, techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:

>I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
>equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
>drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
>don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
>drive.

Have to agree with the other posters, using an external USB2.0 drive
and Ghost 9 is the best way. I did it recently using the DVR+RW drive
and Ghost 9, it natively writes to the DVD and happily spans multiple
disks. You then put in the new drive, boot from the Ghost disk and
restore.



Posted by Barry Watzman on April 6, 2005, 11:13 pm
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 You may need to do a repair install no matter what, as XP "knows" the
drive on which it's installed at the drive serial number level and may
not work when transferred.

However, the easiest way is to mount both drives in the same computer
and used Drive Image in the "copy partition" mode. You can probably do
this most easily with the new drive attached to your computer via a USB
connection, then swap drives.


techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
> equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
> drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
> don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
> drive.
> Thanks
>


Posted by JefN on April 7, 2005, 12:04 am
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| You may need to do a repair install no matter what, as XP "knows"
| the drive on which it's installed at the drive serial number level and
| may not work when transferred.
|

Changing only the Hard Drive does not adversely affect Windows Product
Activation. It only counts as one of ten potential "yes" votes (the NIC
counts as three) .. where fewer than seven "yes, I'm the same" votes will
trigger WPA.

In a notebook system, that would entail a whole slew of or upgraded devices
which, ideally, would probably necessitate a reinstall.

See the late MS-MVP Alex Nichol's page for a very detailed discussion on
WPA:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php

Changing only the hard drive with an image on a new drive will cause the new
drive to be redetected as new hardware upon the first boot. The IDE driver
would then be reloaded and all would be good to go.

Jef




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