Switch hard drives with Xp??

[bigjohn8486]

Hi i just bought a new 2.66ghz, 1gb ram ,160 gb hd , BYO computer and i have an old computer with a lot of files on it. I want to put the 60 gb hd, from my old computer, on my new comp so i can traspher some data. But i heard that you cant switch hds to a different comp if is has the xp os. Is this true??If so is there a way to get around this??? any help ASAP would be great. THX!

[snowmonkey]

why don't you network them and then transfer the file over just to stay on the safe side.




cheers

[bigjohn8486]

Thx... sounds good but i really wanted to use both in one comp 220 gbs sounds real good.

[scouse]

you can easyily do this by installing Xp on your drive set your old drive to slave and take the files from it to your new drive then format your old drive for use as slave.

if you want your could also put your old drive in the new computer leave xp on your on your oldd rive and do a repair, what you will ahve to do is put your old drive in the new computer make sure it is set as master. then boot up the new computer with your XP disk in the drive when it asks you do you want to install xp or repair choose install don't worry the next page will give you the choice of repair again this is the time you then choose repair, what it will do is find all your new hardware and set it up to except them now, but what wil happen is you will have to install SP1 again because when you do this type of repair you lose SP1.

[Flamer]

You don't any program,
If you would like to clone your hard drive using the DOS command Xcopy, do the following:

Be sure the drive you've installed in the slave position as Drive D, has a primary partition and is formatted.

You will need to format a used drive by opening My Computer, right click Drive D, select Format > Full and select Display summary and Copy System Files.

When your drive to be copied to is formatted, close all open programs and go to
Start > Run type> XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r , click OK.

A DOS window will open to your desktop and when you are queried about overwriting, simply answer "yes" each time.
This work even in an XP environment.