New Hard Disk

I have just bought a new hard drive and want to re-install my Win XP Prof
onto it.

Do I need to remove authentication from my old hard disk first?

In news:9A2B4115-53D4-4538-8795-,
ozpanda <> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I have just bought a new hard drive and want to re-install my Win XP
> Prof onto it.
>
> Do I need to remove authentication from my old hard disk first?

Nope. You just have to not use the old one. By the way you might not need to
go through all of that at all. Did your drive come with a CD? If so then use
it. If not head to the manufacturer's site and download their software. What
it will do is enable you to take your old drive and clone it to the new one.
Then you will just reboot and off you go (after swapping the hardware around
so that the new drive is now the master - you can even use the old one as a
slave if you want probably) without needing to re-install or anything.
There's some other tools out there that will help with this if you can't
find it on the manufacturer's site.

Backup! Image/Clone :
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html


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I have been having some serious driver issues under XP and whenever I
re-start I get the blue screen of death. I thought it may be best to start
afresh?

new drive, new install and re-built XP fresh. Thoughts?

Adam

"Galen" wrote:

> In news:9A2B4115-53D4-4538-8795-,
> ozpanda <> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > I have just bought a new hard drive and want to re-install my Win XP
> > Prof onto it.
> >
> > Do I need to remove authentication from my old hard disk first?
>
> Nope. You just have to not use the old one. By the way you might not need to
> go through all of that at all. Did your drive come with a CD? If so then use
> it. If not head to the manufacturer's site and download their software. What
> it will do is enable you to take your old drive and clone it to the new one.
> Then you will just reboot and off you go (after swapping the hardware around
> so that the new drive is now the master - you can even use the old one as a
> slave if you want probably) without needing to re-install or anything.
> There's some other tools out there that will help with this if you can't
> find it on the manufacturer's site.
>
> Backup! Image/Clone :
> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html
>
>
> --
> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
> http://dts-l.org/
>
> Please note that if you're reading this in a browser and the domain is
> not owned by Microsoft then this work is being used without permission.
>
> Access MS Newsgroups :
> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/msnewsgroups.html
>
>
>

In news:2F49323F-C6DE-4864-97F0-,
ozpanda <> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I have been having some serious driver issues under XP and whenever I
> re-start I get the blue screen of death. I thought it may be best to
> start afresh?
>
> new drive, new install and re-built XP fresh. Thoughts?
>
> Adam
>
> "Galen" wrote:
>
>> In news:9A2B4115-53D4-4538-8795-,
>> ozpanda <> had this to say:
>>
>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>
>>> I have just bought a new hard drive and want to re-install my Win XP
>>> Prof onto it.
>>>
>>> Do I need to remove authentication from my old hard disk first?
>>
>> Nope. You just have to not use the old one. By the way you might not
>> need to go through all of that at all. Did your drive come with a
>> CD? If so then use it. If not head to the manufacturer's site and
>> download their software. What it will do is enable you to take your
>> old drive and clone it to the new one. Then you will just reboot and
>> off you go (after swapping the hardware around so that the new drive
>> is now the master - you can even use the old one as a slave if you
>> want probably) without needing to re-install or anything. There's
>> some other tools out there that will help with this if you can't
>> find it on the manufacturer's site.
>>
>> Backup! Image/Clone :
>> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html
>>
>>
>> --
>> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
>> http://dts-l.org/

Do you have an example error code? I'd think hardware but probably not hard
drive at this point. Go ahead with your fresh install and see if it makes a
difference. If not post back and we'll see what happens from there, we'll
have you disable automatically restarting on errors, capture the error code,
and head into it that way.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

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I found the maxtor disk clone utility, so I will try that first as the more I
look, the more daunting it is to re-install everything!

I will get a screen shot of the rror code too and post it on here soon.

Adam

"Galen" wrote:

> In news:2F49323F-C6DE-4864-97F0-,
> ozpanda <> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > I have been having some serious driver issues under XP and whenever I
> > re-start I get the blue screen of death. I thought it may be best to
> > start afresh?
> >
> > new drive, new install and re-built XP fresh. Thoughts?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > "Galen" wrote:
> >
> >> In news:9A2B4115-53D4-4538-8795-,
> >> ozpanda <> had this to say:
> >>
> >> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> >>
> >>> I have just bought a new hard drive and want to re-install my Win XP
> >>> Prof onto it.
> >>>
> >>> Do I need to remove authentication from my old hard disk first?
> >>
> >> Nope. You just have to not use the old one. By the way you might not
> >> need to go through all of that at all. Did your drive come with a
> >> CD? If so then use it. If not head to the manufacturer's site and
> >> download their software. What it will do is enable you to take your
> >> old drive and clone it to the new one. Then you will just reboot and
> >> off you go (after swapping the hardware around so that the new drive
> >> is now the master - you can even use the old one as a slave if you
> >> want probably) without needing to re-install or anything. There's
> >> some other tools out there that will help with this if you can't
> >> find it on the manufacturer's site.
> >>
> >> Backup! Image/Clone :
> >> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
> >> http://dts-l.org/
>
> Do you have an example error code? I'd think hardware but probably not hard
> drive at this point. Go ahead with your fresh install and see if it makes a
> difference. If not post back and we'll see what happens from there, we'll
> have you disable automatically restarting on errors, capture the error code,
> and head into it that way.
>
> --
> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
> http://dts-l.org/
>
> Please note that if you're reading this in a browser and the domain is
> not owned by Microsoft then this work is being used without permission.
>
> Access MS Newsgroups :
> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/msnewsgroups.html
>
>
>

In news:763C8AE5-9BAB-4980-9D1B-,
ozpanda <> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I found the maxtor disk clone utility, so I will try that first as
> the more I look, the more daunting it is to re-install everything!
>
> I will get a screen shot of the rror code too and post it on here
> soon.
>
> Adam
>
> "Galen" wrote:
>
>> In news:2F49323F-C6DE-4864-97F0-,
>> ozpanda <> had this to say:
>>
>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>
>>> I have been having some serious driver issues under XP and whenever
>>> I re-start I get the blue screen of death. I thought it may be best
>>> to start afresh?
>>>
>>> new drive, new install and re-built XP fresh. Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> "Galen" wrote:
>>>
>>>> In news:9A2B4115-53D4-4538-8795-,
>>>> ozpanda <> had this to say:
>>>>
>>>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>>>
>>>>> I have just bought a new hard drive and want to re-install my Win
>>>>> XP Prof onto it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I need to remove authentication from my old hard disk first?
>>>>
>>>> Nope. You just have to not use the old one. By the way you might
>>>> not need to go through all of that at all. Did your drive come
>>>> with a CD? If so then use it. If not head to the manufacturer's
>>>> site and download their software. What it will do is enable you to
>>>> take your old drive and clone it to the new one. Then you will
>>>> just reboot and off you go (after swapping the hardware around so
>>>> that the new drive is now the master - you can even use the old
>>>> one as a slave if you want probably) without needing to re-install
>>>> or anything. There's some other tools out there that will help
>>>> with this if you can't find it on the manufacturer's site.
>>>>
>>>> Backup! Image/Clone :
>>>> http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
>>>> http://dts-l.org/
>>
>> Do you have an example error code? I'd think hardware but probably
>> not hard drive at this point. Go ahead with your fresh install and
>> see if it makes a difference. If not post back and we'll see what
>> happens from there, we'll have you disable automatically restarting
>> on errors, capture the error code, and head into it that way.
>>
>> --
>> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
>> http://dts-l.org/

I will keep the message flagged in anticipation of more information.

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Ok. Finally got my har ddisk imaged, however it seems I lost registry entries
as most of my software won't run.

I had to install the 'Windows Install Cleanup' utility and re-install OFFICE
for it to work.

The original blue screen I get when rebooting contained the following error:

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE amongst ther things.

In news:8CB8ED85-659E-4107-80F3-,
ozpanda <> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Ok. Finally got my har ddisk imaged, however it seems I lost registry
> entries as most of my software won't run.
>
> I had to install the 'Windows Install Cleanup' utility and re-install
> OFFICE for it to work.
>
> The original blue screen I get when rebooting contained the following
> error:
>
> DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE amongst ther things.

About 1/3 of the way down on this page:
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editor...8r03/08r03.asp

How did you image your disk? If it was done completely then there'd be no
loss of registry entries?

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I had the same problem using the Maxtor Cd and now I bought a new hard drive
and used the old one as a backup . It now is not
recognized in My Computer or Disk Managment. It is there in explorer and can
be used.