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Skriven 2006-03-10 12:43:00 av ROBERT FOWLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JAY EMRIE
Ärende: Moving XP from one sys to
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-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to CHARLES SCAGLIONE <=-

 CS>I've done that very thing several times using True Image.  In my
 CS>experience with the program you don't even have to format or partition
 CS>the new drive as TI will do it for you.  Just make sure the new drive is
 CS>as you say larger or at least the same size.

 CS>The best way would be to image her old drive to an external USB 2.0 or
 CS>Firewire drive.  Then restore the image from the external drive to the new
 CS>drive in the new PC.  It may be slow going depending on the size of the
 CS>drive but it's a good method without endangering data on
 CS>the old drive.  If your external drive is large enough you can speed up the
 CS>entire process by not using compression at all or at the very least low
 CS>compression.

 CS>You would of course do the image copy and restore using the TI boot CD
 CS>that you made.  One hint here - make sure before you start that the
 CS>TI boot CD can boot the new PC and "see" the new hard drive.
 JE>     ^^^^^^^
 JE> By this I assume you mean the TI Emergency Recover CD. Yes? as JP would
 JE> say. (I wish he lived closer - I sure would like to meet him as I did
 JE> you and your wife a couple years ago). I almost always set the BIOS so
 JE> it tries to boot from the CD FIRST, then A:, then C:. I also assume
 JE> revalidation of XP will be required. It has already been revaluated
 JE> once a couple years ago when I upgraded the HD.

 JE> The thing I worry about is the considerable differences between the two
 JE> systems: newer motherboard CPU & speed, HD size, BIOS, DVD +/- RW CDRW
 JE> drive, and I don't know what else. OH well - it sure wont hurt to try -
 JE> just time consumed - which I seem to have too little of lately. I'm
 JE> just finishing up putting our Camera Club Yearbook and building this
 JE> system for my daughter then fixing her old system up for her son.

 You are correct about the differences in hardware.  Simply cloning
 the drives can't account for that.  The repair install does.

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler

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