[geeks] Windows: move to new hard drive (forgive me)

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 @ 22:29 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> >Date: 2006/12/10 Sun AM 11:44:15 CST
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: [geeks] Windows: move to new hard drive (forgive me)
> 
> >Situation:
> >
> >Windows XP on 40GB hard drive.
> >
> >Desired situation:
> >
> >Windows XP on 160GB hard drive.
> >
> >What's the easiest way to just move the whole thing to the new drive?
> >
> >Will something like Acronis True Image do it?
> 
> Many retail hard drives come with tools to do just this, or, if that
> is not an option, how about a "live" linux CD (Ubuntu, Knoppix, other)
> and just copy the drive contents?

Every time I just copy the drive contents, the destination is not
bootable.



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