New PC coming have a question. yes I searched.

[rebelace]

Ok I ordered my new dell 8400 today with 2gb of ram a nvidia 9800 gto 256 mb and a 160gb harddrive with xp home edition. I was curious if I could take the harddrive I have in this dell a 40gb with windows xp home also and install into the new pc as a slave and still be able to boot like normal and just boot all my old stuff from that harddrive and transfer all settings. Please let me know if this isnt descriptive enough. And yes I did search twice sorry if this has already been asked.

 

[micker377]

Part of XP is the "Transfer Wizard". The "old" drive will not boot in the "new" computer. Too many hardware and driver diferences. Just "slave" it, and transfer what you need.

 

[paparazi]

rebelace
Yes this older 40gig could be installed as a slave to be used as backup etc but not as the main boot drive.
What this means is you will be able to access files and folders (pictures and music) but actual installed programs on this drive obviously won't work.
Martin

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[pweegar]

Another good use for your old drive installed into your new pc would be a good storage location for your ghosted images (IF you ever decide to use Norton's Ghost). That way if u ever need to rebuild the new drive, the process would go much faster.

 

[paparazi]

pweegar
Surely You mean re-install not rebuild, rebuild with differant components would mean a differant OS configuration, the ghost wouldn't work properly.
Martin

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[pweegar]

Actually I meant if he needed to rebuild a hd if, for instance the OS becomes corrupted and needed to be re-installed. Saves lots of time if you can copy an image over an existing OS.

 

[rebelace]

Ok thanks alot guys. You have been helpful.

 

[tomaso11]

Norton Ghost has a facility for cloning a drive when fitting a new hard drive so you could clone your old drive to a seperate partition on the new machine.
You will find the file and setting transfer wizard can take two- three days on a serial connection

Thomas

So...who actually cans the worms then?