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When I installed Win 7 Ultimate on my computer, I was running Windows XP Pro on my system. I wanted to keep XP on my system so if I didn't like Win 7, I could easily go back to XP. So, I installed Win 7 to an old 250gb drive. XP was/is installed on a 1tb drive. I got 8 months of life out of the 250gb drive, but it finally died earlier this week. Since I still have XP installed, I simply went into my BIOS settings, and made the 1TB drive the boot drive, and XP became the OS.
I am now running XP, but I want to reinstall Win 7 as my OS again. I have another 250gb disk that I would like to move the XP OS to, then reinstall Win 7 on the 1tb drive, since it is the newer drive, and would not fail as soon as the 250gb drive does.
Thus comes my dilemma. How can I move the XP OS to my 250gb drive (and it still work) without having to reinstall XP all over again on the 250gb drive? Or, put another way, can you transfer the OS to another drive and have everything working like it did on the original install on the different drive?
It is a simple process to go into the BIOS and deginate the boot drive, so that you can have two different boot drives, but only boot to the one you want to use, which is what I did before, but I have never tried to MOVE the OS to a new drive and have everything work. Will a disk image do this, or will it only back up data files? Or, perhaps a program that will move everything???
Any help would be greatly appreciated and needed.
Thanks,
Ed Wood
I am now running XP, but I want to reinstall Win 7 as my OS again. I have another 250gb disk that I would like to move the XP OS to, then reinstall Win 7 on the 1tb drive, since it is the newer drive, and would not fail as soon as the 250gb drive does.
Thus comes my dilemma. How can I move the XP OS to my 250gb drive (and it still work) without having to reinstall XP all over again on the 250gb drive? Or, put another way, can you transfer the OS to another drive and have everything working like it did on the original install on the different drive?
It is a simple process to go into the BIOS and deginate the boot drive, so that you can have two different boot drives, but only boot to the one you want to use, which is what I did before, but I have never tried to MOVE the OS to a new drive and have everything work. Will a disk image do this, or will it only back up data files? Or, perhaps a program that will move everything???
Any help would be greatly appreciated and needed.
Thanks,
Ed Wood
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