Changing hard drive in laptop.
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From: Rock on 11 Apr 2008 18:06 Hi, I have a 40 GB HD in my laptop and have just bought a 160. I have already done a True Image of my C drive with XP on it and placed it on my external F drive. Now I want to take my current C Drive out and replace it with the F Drive 160GB one but need to have my XP up and running on it. How do I do this? Thanks rck
From: C.Joseph S. Drayton on 12 Apr 2008 00:28 Rock wrote: >Hi, > >I have a 40 GB HD in my laptop and have just bought a 160. > >I have already done a True Image of my C drive with XP on it and >placed it on my external F drive. > >Now I want to take my current C Drive out and replace it with the F >Drive 160GB one but need to have my XP up and running on it. > >How do I do this? > >Thanks > >rck My TrueImage disk is bootable. So all you would do is boot from it and have it clone the 'external' drive to the new internal drive. If you did an actual clone of the partition it shouldn't be a problem. Though if I remember right you can also restore an image from the bootable disk. The big question is will your external drive be recognized. I have had better luck with Ghost for cloning from an external USB, but TrueImage does seem to work with some USB drives. -- Sincerely, C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T CSD Computer Services Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/ E-mail: csdcs(a)tlerma.com
From: BillW50 on 12 Apr 2008 12:44 In news:xn0fotgxjjshn5002(a)news.sunsite.dk, C.Joseph S. Drayton typed on 12 Apr 2008 04:28:30 GMT: > Rock wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a 40 GB HD in my laptop and have just bought a 160. >> >> I have already done a True Image of my C drive with XP on it and >> placed it on my external F drive. >> >> Now I want to take my current C Drive out and replace it with the F >> Drive 160GB one but need to have my XP up and running on it. >> >> How do I do this? >> >> Thanks >> >> rck > > My TrueImage disk is bootable. So all you would do is boot from it and > have it clone the 'external' drive to the new internal drive. If you > did an actual clone of the partition it shouldn't be a problem. Though > if I remember right you can also restore an image from the bootable > disk. The big question is will your external drive be recognized. I > have had better luck with Ghost for cloning from an external USB, but > TrueImage does seem to work with some USB drives. I tried this last year just to see if this would work. And all you need is something bootable like a CD or a flash drive. I used a BartPE CD. And all I did was to copy all files and folders to an external HD. Then remove the HD and installed a new HD. You have to format and make this one bootable. I won't go into details how to do this part. But then boot up BartPE or something else and copy all of those files and files back to the new HD. And it worked perfectly. BartPE is also free so that is why I tried this. I do also have commercial software that does this too, but that was too easy. LOL -- Bill
From: Rock on 12 Apr 2008 17:53 BillW50 wrote: > In news:xn0fotgxjjshn5002(a)news.sunsite.dk, > C.Joseph S. Drayton typed on 12 Apr 2008 04:28:30 GMT: >> Rock wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a 40 GB HD in my laptop and have just bought a 160. >>> >>> I have already done a True Image of my C drive with XP on it and >>> placed it on my external F drive. >>> >>> Now I want to take my current C Drive out and replace it with the F >>> Drive 160GB one but need to have my XP up and running on it. >>> >>> How do I do this? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> rck >> >> My TrueImage disk is bootable. So all you would do is boot from it and >> have it clone the 'external' drive to the new internal drive. If you >> did an actual clone of the partition it shouldn't be a problem. Though >> if I remember right you can also restore an image from the bootable >> disk. The big question is will your external drive be recognized. I >> have had better luck with Ghost for cloning from an external USB, but >> TrueImage does seem to work with some USB drives. > > I tried this last year just to see if this would work. And all you need > is something bootable like a CD or a flash drive. I used a BartPE CD. > And all I did was to copy all files and folders to an external HD. Then > remove the HD and installed a new HD. You have to format and make this > one bootable. I won't go into details how to do this part. But then boot > up BartPE or something else and copy all of those files and files back > to the new HD. And it worked perfectly. BartPE is also free so that is > why I tried this. I do also have commercial software that does this too, > but that was too easy. LOL > Thank guys. Yes I actually did an image to the ext then put the external in the laptop and after booting to the TI CD restored it. It did that alright however I now have this problem.. It boots okay to the Login panel. When I log in (without a pwd which is how I have been doing it forever, just hit the enter key), I see the 'Loading your files' panel for a second, then get the 'logging off' panel. I hear both Windows songs, logging in and logging off then it takes me back to the Login panel and it all starts again. I do have the original HD with the working XP on it though. rock
From: - Bobb - on 12 Apr 2008 19:33 "Rock" <1940(a)pobox.com> wrote in message news:48012f65$0$4706$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > BillW50 wrote: >> In news:xn0fotgxjjshn5002(a)news.sunsite.dk, >> C.Joseph S. Drayton typed on 12 Apr 2008 04:28:30 GMT: >>> Rock wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I have a 40 GB HD in my laptop and have just bought a 160. >>>> I have already done a True Image of my C drive with XP on it and >>>> placed it on my external F drive. >>>> Now I want to take my current C Drive out and replace it with the F >>>> Drive 160GB one but need to have my XP up and running on it. >>>> How do I do this? >>>> Thanks >>>> rck >>> >>> My TrueImage disk is bootable. So all you would do is boot from it and >>> have it clone the 'external' drive to the new internal drive. If you >>> did an actual clone of the partition it shouldn't be a problem. Though >>> if I remember right you can also restore an image from the bootable >>> disk. The big question is will your external drive be recognized. I >>> have had better luck with Ghost for cloning from an external USB, but >>> TrueImage does seem to work with some USB drives. >> >> I tried this last year just to see if this would work. And all you need >> is something bootable like a CD or a flash drive. I used a BartPE CD. >> And all I did was to copy all files and folders to an external HD. Then >> remove the HD and installed a new HD. You have to format and make this >> one bootable. I won't go into details how to do this part. But then >> boot up BartPE or something else and copy all of those files and files >> back to the new HD. And it worked perfectly. BartPE is also free so >> that is why I tried this. I do also have commercial software that does >> this too, but that was too easy. LOL >> > Thank guys. > > Yes I actually did an image to the ext then put the external in the > laptop and after booting to the TI CD restored it. > It did that alright however I now have this problem.. > It boots okay to the Login panel. > When I log in (without a pwd which is how I have been doing it forever, > just hit the enter key), I see the 'Loading your files' panel for a > second, then get the 'logging off' panel. > > I hear both Windows songs, logging in and logging off then it takes me > back to the Login panel and it all starts again. > > I do have the original HD with the working XP on it though. > rock Can you wipe the target drive ? Boot XP on original drive (back in the laptop) with NO external drive. Since you hooked up the new drive to XP, you need to edit the registry PRIOR to ghosting it. The problem is that Windows "has seen the ID of that external drive already" and associates the ID number of 'whatever it is" - say 12345123445" with drive letter X: When you insert that drive as boot drive, XP starts up/ recognizes the ID and "knows that ID - it is drive X: , assigns it the letter X: and when you try to login there is no C drive for XP to use. You need to remove that info from the registry BEFORE you do the image. It has to do with the registry settings for mounted devices: Are you familiar with editing the registry ? Does this mean some thing to you?: "HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices \DosDevices\C: " or does that mean nothing to you ? What you need to do has to be done VERY carefully, so if you are NOT familiar with registry editing - find someone who is. It's not tough - but one wrong move and it will fail. Read this next line carefully. If you ONLY have the one disk drive , THEORETICALLY you SHOULD be able to install the original drive, delete all assignments - GHOST THAT image - restore to the new drive and when that new drive boots - since it has no knowledge of a drive C:, IT will be drive C: and all is well. Seems good on paper , but Microsoft has a much more detailed way to do it. Once you delete the DOSDEVICES info - do not reboot - hook up the external drive and THEN run TI/Ghost etc to image the current XP drive to the external drive directly. Shutdown. Remove internal drive - replace with external (new) drive. Leave the original drive disconnected !! Boot the internal drive. with NO EXTERNAL DRIVE. You do NOT want windows to assign a drive letter to the new drive prior to it being the ONLY drive in the system. see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188 titled How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows If you do a GOOGLE search for " \DosDevices\C: site:microsoft.com" it will show all the MSFT recommended articles. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&tid=333fd3d4-a69e-4be6-bc74-455c4670c58f&cat=en_US_91a15a1e-b269-4291-b6b4-dc2d504ce9ef&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1 ====== If you have another PC, here Pegasus replied to someone with similiar issue a few years ago: see how detailed it can be ?? http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&tid=a7da48f0-54b3-4f5a-b1c4-05ad0d670809&cat=en_US_91a15a1e-b269-4291-b6b4-dc2d504ce9ef&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
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