Make sure after cloning that the old hard drive is not physically attached. Having both drives
attached can freak Windows out until it recognizes the new hardware (the drive) and sets it up in
Device manager. My setup is similar with a 98 partition and XP on same drive. I cloned whole drive
attached new drive as master, unhooked older drive and booted up. Only issue I had was geting Boot
record setup right as I use Boot Magic to do my booting, had to set the 98 as active and re-enable
BM to be Boot manager. After XP boots and find the new drive, you can then put older drive back in
and wipe it out to use as storage.
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+
Computer Education Services Corp. (CESC)
> What could be bringing up my errors in XP copy? I
> have the log-on, can get into my WIN98 partition, but XP gives me registry
> failure: Stop 00000051, or can't load hive default_. My XP (SP2, all
> up-to-date) setup runs great on the old HD, just running out of space.
> MK
>> MK:
>> Your instinct is correct. If your objective is to simply clone the contents of your old HD to a
>> new HD using a disk imaging program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image or the
>> disk cloning utility available from the manufacturer of your new HD, then a Repair install is
>> unnecessary.
>> Art
>>> Thanks. The Bios is OK (according to Asus and what I can see) and it showed up fine when I just
>>> attached it as a slave. And I'll be partitioning anyway. What I don't understand is some people
>>> seem to be able to simply clone a drive without a repair install. Nothing else in the system is
>>> being changed.
>>> MK
>>>> Also in addition to having SP1/SP2 slipstreamed as "Yves" said, you'll need
>>>> to make sure your BIOS/CMOS and I/O Controller both support 48-bit LBA - if
>>>> not, you'll need to make a least 2 partitions, as without SP1/SP2, and
>>>> 48-bit LBA hardware support, the largest partition you'll be able to make is
>>>> 120/137GB, depending on whether you view the size as base 10 or base 2
>>>> numbering system.
>>>> --
>>>> "Google is your Friend!"
>>>> www.google.com
>>>> ***********************************************
>>>>> I'm getting the same problem, but I'm only switching from a 40 GB Maxtor
>>>> to
>>>>> a 160 GB WD. Could it be that I need to do a repair for that as well?
>>>>> MK
>>>>> > Phillip;
>>>>> > You probably need to perform a Repair Installation to properly detect
>>>> the
>>>>> > new hardware:
>>>>> > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Jupiter Jones [MVP]
>>>>> > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>>>>> >> It there a method to move an installation of XP (SP2) to new hardware?
>>>>> >> Right now it just goes into a "rebooting loop" when I attempt it.
>>>>> >> I still have the old hardware if I need it and the drive was "ghosted"
>>>> to
>>>>> >> a
>>>>> >> new drive for the new machine, so nothing is "lost",...the old machine
>>>> is
>>>>> >> still running and intact.
>>>>> >> --
>>>>> >> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
>>>>> >> www.wandtv.com
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