XP Won't Boot WIth Large Hard Drive. Hello, Hardware is Dell Inspiron 9300, Windows XP MCE + SP2. I installed a 250GB WD hard drive in January 2008, and removed the existing 80GB drive. The new drive is IDE, as this seems to have been the last Inspiron...

be backed up before proceeding. > then bootup with the XP cd and do a clean install > (you will get the option to format the drive) > Again, why? The OP'd probably save a lot of time by upgrading his PC to WinXP, rather than performing a clean...

of xp and then do the upgrade. Problem? A complete reinstall for a service pack? Not many financial instituitions I deal with want their hard drives wiped. As a matter of fact with the propreitary software that comes with the emachines,hp,compaq,gateway,...

a year so far. P.S Forgot to mention, even though I keep my programs and files on another partition I still put them on CD, just incase my hard drive died. I want to get another hard drive to store them on there also, just incase and I don’t mind having...

it. I know the components I want to use so My question is, what is the best way to transfer the contents of her (EIDE) hard drive to a new (SATA) hard drive. She is using XP now and wants to continue to use XP with all her settings,apps,games/data intact....

but >>don't know what. I haven't installed any partitions. I have a 250GB hard>>drive with about 5% used. I have change the drive letters on the DVD & CD >>drives so this can't be the problem. I would appreciate any help on this >>problem. >> david...

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reinstalling WinXP, installing SP2, getting protection in place, and getting Windows Updates - sounds like a good half-day's work. Reinstalling applications and restoring backed-up data - depends on which apps (and do you have the installation media...

to re-install Win XP eg new MBoard or whatever and have to re-download the updates required. Using dial up it is a bit tedious. Can I just save the Updates already installed on to another Hard drive, CD etc and just copy them into the re-installed WinXP....

PC i have 2 Hard Drives, both have XP on them, one is a 160GB Hard Drive (My main one) and the other is my Old 20GB Hard Drive (which used to be the main one, but is now just a place to dump music/pictures etc !). My 160GB Hard Drive has just went dodgy....