Hi all Prosperous New Year I often perform this type of service for clients, Hard Disk Failures, Virus's etc.
If you want to use Ghost then make the new one the Master the old one the Secondary (or stick it on the CD Cable as you won't be needing that, booting from Floppy) When you have Ghosted the files, remove the old hard disk and everything should work. If you do it the other way and find your Hard Disk, CD ROMs/Writers and/or Removable Disks drive letters are jumbled then: (Not necessary with pre 2000 operating systems, they issue drive letters for example. Cable 1 Master C: Cable 2 Master D: Cable 1 Secondary E: Cable 21 Secondary F:) Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management Then for example if you want to change D: and E: over Select D: Right click and select Change Drive letter and change it Z: or something high. Do the same with E: and change it to D: Do the same with Z: and change it to E: For the original problem, as long as the XP wasn't activated to the new motherboard. Boot from an XP Home or Professional Disk (Must be the same type OEM, Upgrade or Retail) as the original one used. (I use this method when the only disks are Manufacturers Restore Disks). At the first prompt for doing a repair, ignore and select Install XP, Then at the second prompt for a repair select it and allow it to replace the system files, this will usually pick up the correct drivers. If you are using an XP Install Disk instead of the Manufacturers restore disk then, when you come to activate it, it won't activate so you have to use the phone and follow the instructions from the robot. This will fail but then you will be referred to a help desk person who on being told the reason, will quite happily give you a new no. to enter. You will then need to do custom Windows updates as this will take the OS back to the level of the installation CD i.e. if it is Service Pack 1 then you need to update to Service Pack 2 plus all the other updates. You will also need to reinstall your Motherboard etc. drivers, using the original CD's/Floppy Disks When doing a custom update, be careful with the Hardware updates as Microsoft get it wrong in a number of cases i.e. Realtek AC97 audio is incorrectly diagnosed as Crystal AC97 and updating will loose your sound. Hope this helps. Peter Peter Hart Computers -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Cushing Sent: 05 January 2007 10:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Installing a new HD in an old PC Roman Suazo wrote: > I needed to install a new HD with its corresponding OS (xp) in an old Pc (500 mhz, 128 ram, bad CD-ROM), but due to the slowness of the Pc, I prefered to install the OS by using a newer PC. Everything went fine but when I installed the HD in the old pc, XP wouldn't start. My questions are: is it feasible what I tried to do? Could it be that the OS is not working because the BIOS is not recognizing properly the HD? What else could be causing this problem? > > It seems like the Auto-detect function of the BIOS is working fine but I am not really sure... > Hi Roman, As other people have said this will not work as XP stores information about all the hardware. Over Christmas I wanted to put in a new hard disk into my son's PC. What I tried to do was install it as a slave disk, then boot using a floppy with a copy of norton ghost on it and ghost over the whole partition. This worked fine, so then I set the old drive as a slave, then new drive as a master and tried booting up. It booted up ok, but the old drive was still the C drive and the new one D! I think the reason for this was that XP had information about the old drive and had linked that to C. It might have worked ok if I left out the old drive, but didn't try this. When I swapped them back (master/slave) it worked fine, so now he has to install his new games to the D drive. Peter [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
