Those sneaky Microsoft folks!

[jono-ats]

I've got a workstation set up with XP and a SCSI drive for booting.

I ran out of space on the SCSI drive and wanted to clone it to a larger (SCSI) drive. I did it two ways . . . first with XCOPY, and then with a bit clone. In both cases, Windows would start to boot an then continue to cycle. Further checking suggested an error in the System part of the registry.

So then I tried to clone to a SATA drive (both ways). Got the same result each time.

Is this a NTSF/XP thing that is designed to prevent piracy? Is there a work-around? I don't want to pirate my copy of XP - I just want to migrate it!

Thanks in advance,

Jono

[zebong]

Hi,

Did you have the SCSi disk in the same ID and the old one, check boot.ini
Or try other clone program to copy the disk.

[drc]

I clone XP drives all the time with no problem... are you getting a bluescreen? I'd suggest maybe using ghost or acronis or something like that.

[crecomp]

i too clone xp workstations the whole time with no issues if you go to the same hardware. however if you do go to different hardware where you have replaced the motherboard in particular windows xp will not boot. this is due to windows during installtion detecting the controller card and you could say tying your install to it.

in these cases when i need to move an xp install to different hardware i use Acronis true image, create an image with acronis and store it to a a network drive or external drive, repalce hard drive and boot from acronis cd, select image and restore it to your new drive.

if you want more info let me know.

[jono-ats]

Thanks, y'all.

The SCSI ID's are different; boot.ini looks fine; the methods that usually work for me just don't in this particular case. I'm trying Ghost now, and if that doesn't get it, I'll do an image like crecomp suggests.

- Jono

[BlackST]

Xcopy doesn't work, Ghost works 100%.