XP-repair install

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Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh install of
the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is not
particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the motherboard
change.

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DaveW



"BudMan" <notme@none.net> wrote in message
news:zLadnY0SU_J5zLPcRVn-hw@comcast.com...
>I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one that is
>installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old drive's data
>on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP will it
>work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so much
>easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks for the
>software on the old drive.
>

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DaveW wrote:

> Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh install of
> the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is not
> particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the motherboard
> change.
>

The many times I've done it it's redetected the hardware precisely as it
would have with a fresh install and operated in precisely the same manner
afterwards, as if a fresh install, with the exception, of course, of
keeping all one's settings, data, and programs.

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:24:40 GMT To confuse Arrogance with Confidence
is as stupid as to confuse Ambition with Ability and then "DaveW"
<none@zero.org> wrote :

>Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh install of
>the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is not
>particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the motherboard
>change.

DaveW is a,"Wanker"  



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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:10:57 -0400 To confuse Arrogance with
Confidence is as stupid as to confuse Ambition with Ability and then
"BudMan" <notme@none.net> wrote :

>I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one that is
>installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old drive's data
>on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP will it
>work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so much
>easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks for the
>software on the old drive.

No probs.Click here,
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

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DAVE!!!! formatting the drives does nothing but verify HD errors and
maps them, basically. If the drive is bad enough that you feel a NEED
to format, why are you using the drive? Registry errors are NOT
related to(99% of the time) 'NOT formatting the drive' but rather the
corruption of the disk that the files are being copied from software
installed / uninstalled wrong -or virii.



"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
news:YiuXc.188375$8_6.33147@attbi_s04...
> Because you won't be reformatting the harddrive and doing a fresh
install of
> the OS, you may get Registry errors. The Repair Utility in XP is
not
> particularly good at finding and changing errors due to the
motherboard
> change.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
>
>
> "BudMan" <notme@none.net> wrote in message
> news:zLadnY0SU_J5zLPcRVn-hw@comcast.com...
> >I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one
that is
> >installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old
drive's data
> >on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP
will it
> >work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so
much
> >easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks
for the
> >software on the old drive.
> >
>
>

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Just a quick note to all who helped. The install on a new machine went off
without nearly a hitch. The biggest problem I had was cloning the drive.
Ghost 2003 does not write a new boot sector on a USB transfer. I had to put
both the drives on one cable and clone them the old fashoned way.
Other than that the install went well. All the files and programs are there
and work well. The drivers for the new hardware installed correctly when I
went to device manager and updated the drivers for all the X'd out hardware.
The only odd thing was that I did not have to call MS for a product
activation. Maybe my score was just below the theshold, but it was a new
MB, memory, drive, video card, and DVD burner.
"BudMan" <notme@none.net> wrote in message
news:zLadnY0SU_J5zLPcRVn-hw@comcast.com...
>I want to transfer all the data from my old hard drive to a new one that is
>installed in a system that I am building. If I clone the old drive's data
>on to the new drive with Norton Ghost and do a repair install of XP will it
>work? I know that I may have to re-activate XP, but it would be so much
>easier to do that one step instead of finding all the install disks for the
>software on the old drive.
>