Transfering files
Ok guys, I'm being lazy here. I have a tower with 2 drives, a 40g and an 80g.
I need to use one of them in my next build and I prefer to leave the 80 gigger in the current tower. The 40 being Master and 80 being Slave.
Problem being I have most all my programs on the 40 gigger, and want to just transfer them without having to re-install them.
Some things I just dragged onto the larger drive, but I don't want have to move everything that way.
So.. I ran XP's files and settings wizard and saved the files to the larger drive. (I also have a backup of the 40 g on the 80g).
I already have XP installed on the 80g, so I should be able to just continue the Files and Settings transfer on it when I switch out the drives, right?
I'm just trying to save some time and not have to re-install everything.
I need to use one of them in my next build and I prefer to leave the 80 gigger in the current tower. The 40 being Master and 80 being Slave.
Problem being I have most all my programs on the 40 gigger, and want to just transfer them without having to re-install them.
Some things I just dragged onto the larger drive, but I don't want have to move everything that way.
So.. I ran XP's files and settings wizard and saved the files to the larger drive. (I also have a backup of the 40 g on the 80g).
I already have XP installed on the 80g, so I should be able to just continue the Files and Settings transfer on it when I switch out the drives, right?
I'm just trying to save some time and not have to re-install everything.
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There may be a way to transfer the registery from one install of XP to another but I think that thats pretty hard core hacking stuff.
I can't imagine that XP would allow you to just copy the registery from one install of XP to another... but I'm not an expert either.
A better way would have to use ghost or drive image and copy over your whole 40gb drive to the 80gb drive then situatied everything on the 80gb as you wanted it and then used a program like partition magic to merge or resize your partitions on the 80gb drive then you wouldn't have had to re-install all of your programs.
Are you trying to run 2 installations of XP on the same rig if so that might cause problems.
Usualy you would hide the partition on the drive that has the copy of XP you don't want to use...
"g"
[EDIT]gtghm beat me to it [/EDIT]
Nothing that can't be redone though. I've just used it as a back up drive for mps, images and well.. backups.
Partition Magic hasn't been kind to me either, so I really would rather not play with it.
Ah well.. I'll let you know how it goes.
I'm pulling the 40 gigger out in a few.
use a disk replication utility to make a dulicate of the 40 on the 80
pull the 40
I have had trouble with this same move in the past. I had a freeware utility, but now I can't find it. sorry.
is your avitar a keyboard? ??
So much for being lazy and saving time.
Yep, avi is kb. My EluminX.
Love it.
I don't have Ghost, and was just looking for a easy (lazy) way to do this today.
OS is now installed and I'm dl'ing windows updates.
But, thank you. I may look into getting Ghost for future use.
you can copy all non-pure program files from the 40 to the 80. The registry has a stop notice in it, feed that full copy of registry to the new XP and it will likely go bonkers trying to figure out what it has while noticing STOP error is no longer true.
Not necessarly, :grin, if he were to partition the 80gb drive into 2 40's then move the backed up stuff to the last partition. Then you can do a partition to partition transfer and that would not do anything to the information on the last 40gb... However, he has said that hes already re-installed XP and is going about a new install... Probably not a bad call either if its been awhile... Gives him the oppertunity to make changes to the over all system that maybe he was stuck with. Also cleans out the registery and stuff... :grin
Kinda weird that PM would eat a drive or cause problems... I've used PM6 and 7 and never had a problem, except when I was using long rounded cables or just plain bad IDE cables.
Not saying that it didn't happen, just sayin that its weird thats all...
Cheers,
"g"
I reformated, re-installed, and it's running F@H.
Btw, the 80 gig is only a couple weeks old. I only had about 4 gigs of files on it.
I have the files backed up on another drive, so i can just copy them off the network.
It was the programs that I didn't want to have to re-install, but it's a done deal now.
Cheers,
Dexter...