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    Can I transfer XP to new partition? Help

    Hi all,

    I am running out of space (20 + 80 gig full) and am looking to upgrade to 2x 120g sata drives - Raid 0, whilst keeping the 80 gig.

    Currently I have windows xp on a (old) partitioned 20g drive as c: plus d: on the same drive for apps and downloads, with an 80g drive (f for games.

    I really don't want to have to re-install windows xp plus every piece of software I have again.

    Is there an easy way of transferring windows to a partitioned 320g Raid 0 array? (say 10-15 gigs for xp bloatware) without losing all the info for apps and games.

    I've heard a bit about ghosting drives but I'm unsure whether this will do the trick (or what software to use, I'm familiar with partion magic etc)

    Can I just back up the registry and re-install this to a fresh windows install on the new partioned drive? Your help is appreciated.

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    i bought this piece of software and it truly is amazing for the £12 price tag. never let me down and runs entirely in windows!!! u literally press copy c: to your chosen drive and whallop its done, u then have a complete bootable entire copy of your entire O/S drive.

    i think thats what u meant anyway

    http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/

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    Doubtful as to whether it will work as you are copying from one IDE controller (standard mobo one) to a different IDE controller (raid one) which would entail XP needing to have a different Driver loaded in order to boot off the raid array.

    As far as i know, it is not possible to force XP to see a different hard disk controller driver at bootup as it needs to load its old driver to get at botup data, but youve taken that old controller offline, so you can't load a new driver for your raid controller.

    Reinstall is the only way AFAIK though i would gladly be proven wrong!

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    hmmmm yeah butuz is right - if you were just going to a new hard drive u'd be fine.... but to a raid array.... no dice buddy. I've reinstalled xp 3 times today - time to do your share

    and do you know what your doing with raid? i just ask cos 120 + 120 + 80 =

    240gb raid 0 array + an 80gb disk, not a 320gb raid array......if typo then soz, if unsure just ask


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    Funnelhead,

    yeah thats a typo, woz looking at 120g drives then found 160g for the same price whilst writing that post

    Looking to do a raid 0 plus a single ide 80g.

    So tired of having to re-install Windows. Is there a quick way of getting all my programs/games etc to work on a new install without re-installing them?

    Is it worth backing up the registry and trying to restore it after a new XP install or do I have to save and manually alter all my config files for games etc?

    Please help

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