Success!
With NEW disk in laptop and OLD disk in USB caddy, did Ghost Disk Copy to partition of same size on new disk. (It might be ok for a resize, but have not tried that.) Booted fine, Did an automatic CHKDSK, Rebooted, Logged on as me (An Admin user), detected disk had changed rebooted...
More movement forwards, but still not to closure!
Still avoiding sysprep as frightened that the original disk won't come back up ok with the network users, data, etc if I have to revert (yet) again.
Tonight I tried taking the original disk out of the laptop and putting that one in the USB...
Tried clean install of XP to a partition the same size as the old drive and system booted fine! Then Seagate Disk Wizard Maintenance Copy Files. There were a few files it could not open to write to, but the new disk booted fine. Then issues with crashing Recovery Point application and corrupt...
Right, where are we? No further forward. Symantec support suggest I use MS Sysprep, but some of the messages about resetting SIDs etc worry me. Will I be able to access everything as me afterwards? Also, why would it change anything at the BIOS/MBR/Boot interface?
Tried using Seagate Disk...
Have not used fdisk as it's an NTFS drive, but the Symantec Gdisk which comes with Ghost (& they say is better!) shows the partition as active and all the Head, Cylinder, Model data. Booting into Windows via floppy and using Disk Management shows it as an Active System partition.
Also Disk...
I needed to upgrade my Windows XP Pro SP2, HP NC6000 laptop from 30 GB to a more realistic size, and decided to get a Seagate Momentus 80 GB hard drive on basis of cost and apparent compatibility.
Transfer/Install sequence was:
1 Initialised disk using Disk Management on Windows XP Pro via USB...
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