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| Bleyseng |
 May 9 2005, 07:30 PM
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Aircooled Baby!  Group: Members Posts: 13,036 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Seattle, Washington (for now) Member No.: 24 Region Association: Pacific Northwest  |
Got a question...how can I copy the registry from one hard drive and install it on another so I can just copy all my programs/files onto the new hard drive?
And, where the heck is it? in System32? I am installing a 60 gig hard drive on the laptop replacing a winnie 20 gig one. |
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| RustyWa |
May 23 2005, 08:27 PM
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Working Member Group: Members Posts: 610 Joined: 2-January 03 From: Kent, WA Member No.: 72 |
Hmmm. I just did this on a work PC Friday. You install the larger drive into the pc, format it, installed a temporary basic version of Windows on new drive(probably didn't need to do that but works good for other stuff), boot up to the new temp OS, run the built in XCOPY.exe program to transfer everything from old drive to new drive.
Now comes the hard part...I guess, add a line in the boot.ini file on the new drive so you can boot into both the temp OS you just created and the newly copied old OS, this is for just in case. Then change the mounted device settings of the drives in the registry so your new drive becomes C: and your old drive becomes something else. It's fairly quick and free. |
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Bleyseng Win Doze Experts May 9 2005, 07:30 PM
Part Pricer I would just Ghost the drive and copy the image to... May 9 2005, 07:39 PM bd1308 ditto. do it all the time. May 9 2005, 07:44 PM Bleyseng oh great, I have to catch a Ghost and drive it whe... May 9 2005, 07:48 PM LukeD Copying the registry like that won't work anyw... May 9 2005, 07:53 PM LukeD OK, so I assume you are not trying to move program... May 9 2005, 07:55 PM Bleyseng Got a 2.5 inch caddy for the ole 20 gig drive. Pro... May 9 2005, 07:57 PM LukeD Never mind, System 32 is Windows.
You will have t... May 9 2005, 07:59 PM LukeD Well, what you want to do is damn near impossible ... May 9 2005, 08:01 PM Bleyseng all the data is on the 20 gig drive and I want to ... May 9 2005, 08:02 PM Bleyseng I have Norton Clean Sweep.
Lost the discs for Mic... May 9 2005, 08:03 PM LukeD If you have clean sweep as part of the Norton suit... May 9 2005, 08:09 PM anthony Geoff, do you know anyone local who works in IT? T... May 9 2005, 08:10 PM Bleyseng Yes, that sounds like it so I'll look on Clean... May 9 2005, 08:13 PM Travis Neff Definately use ghost, registry swap will not work.... May 9 2005, 08:13 PM Verruckt Just "borrow" a ghost floppy... ht... May 9 2005, 08:56 PM ArtechnikA okay - is there a product that can do this from so... May 9 2005, 08:59 PM skline Why dont you just ghost it to a server over a netw... May 9 2005, 09:00 PM Verruckt Ghost is on a floppy disk, you just boot to it and... May 9 2005, 09:25 PM Gint http://... May 9 2005, 10:32 PM RustyWa Since you have a drive caddy... XCOPY source desti... May 9 2005, 10:33 PM dinomium Geoff, lemme know if you need some help. If you ca... May 9 2005, 10:39 PM ArtechnikA May 23 2005, 07:44 PM ArtechnikA <... May 23 2005, 08:32 PM RustyWa |
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