XP Home Won't Transfer

Hi: Ghosted XP Home from 10 GB to new 30 GB HD, to faster motherboard, Ghost went okay, it seems. Installed new HD, inserted orig8inalk XP home disk in new system, did an instal, then at right time, clicked on Repair. Fles began to transfer on new system. Entered the XP ID number of the original XP Home O/S. Continued. Atht eh Installing Win window, the HD activity light no longer recorded progress, the green progress bar stopped indicating 13 minutes until completion, and screen promo messages continued to repeat through repeat cycle. Nothin' on the progress. Tried to do original ghost to the 30 GB drive on original machine, but the BIOS doesn't support the size, thus reason for ghosting and moving to the new machine with an attempt made there. Suggestions, walk throughs, help? As always appreciate this site, rather those who make it a site, for the help. Regards from rainy land Maryland, j

What happens if you make the Partition the same size the image was used to - i.e. 10GB.

Then try use the Ghost Image?

Then just make a second partition for the remaining space when Windows is running? Ghost should load no problem onto that i would contemplate updating the BIOS.....But will it actually allow you to create a partition of 30GB in FDISK?

Bare in mind if you try to restore the ghost image to a smaller partion it may not like it.

Hope this helps. :D

CM.

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Chris - MCP :)

Hi again,

I just read your note once more, you say this:

" Hi: Ghosted XP Home from 10 GB to new 30 GB HD, to faster motherboard, Ghost went okay, it seems. Installed new HD, inserted orig8inalk XP home disk in new system, did an instal, then at right time, clicked on Repair. Fles began to transfer on new system. Entered the XP ID number of the original XP Home O/S. Continued. Atht eh Installing Win "

Am i understanding you right, you are repairing the instalation on a new disk without an original XP installation or partition on it?
If this is the case then that would most likely explain why it fails.

CM :D

Hi: Thanks for respponse. Find out that if there is a motherboard change, especially with XP Home, you can't get the thing up and running again. Upgrade must be done on original machine, with original cards, etc. Buy Microsoft, now about $25 a share. The deal is this: Tried to use my paid for in greenbacks copy of XP Home to a newer, faster machine. Old system with XP Home was only about four months old. Figured with a new OS it might be nice to upgrade the computer. Tried to install the new 30 GB HD in old system. BIOS apparently wouldn't recognize the new drive. Ghosted the old drive to new 30 GB drive. All went okay, but then again, apparently now okay. Moved new drive to new motherboard, with new cards, and thhat'w when the wheels fell off. System just would not finish loading using original copy of XP Home. Am told now that you can't upgrade to a new system with a new motherboard with XP. So, unless I go back to the old system with its 10 gb hd, I'm stuck, with the system and of course, Robin Hood Gates, else have to buy a new copy of XP. Again, thanks, Regards, j

You certainly can upgrade to a new system. I did it myself (with Pro, but that shouldn't make a difference). If you do it too often Product activation will complain and you'll have to phone Microsoft for a new key, but that's all.

Try doing a format and clean install, if you still have problems then it's probably some hardware that's on the new machine that XP doesn't like. Post back and we'll take it from there.

Hi: Yeah, we tried the clean install first, after ghosting the original 10 gb hd, since the system (original system) refused the 30 gb hd. Move the new hd with ghost to new system with new motherboard, new cards, etc. Only a video card and net card in the new system. Again, using original XP Home did a clean boot, no luck. Tried an install and then repair, no luck. Just hangs or freezes. Only thing not tried was a new hard drive. Again, it's been suggest that the move to the new motherboard is a legal no, no, and that's the cause for the failure to upgrade to a new system. Suggested to me that XP Home is fussy, but again, that switching to a new motherboard, faster than than the old one, and different brand, is cause of problem. Might just as last resort, a new hard drive ghost. Regards across the pond, j

The new mobo is not a legal no-no, you're perfectly entitled to upgrade your hardware, it's a technical no-no. All the NT based OS's write a hall.dll (Hardware Abstraction Layer) which is unique to the hardware found when Windows first installs, that's why it doesn't like it when it finds different hardware.

Forget about Ghost images of your old machine, that's never going to work. Just boot up the new machine with the Windows CD in the drive and let Setup do a format and clean install and you should be fine.

Hi: Thought that might be possible, but we'd like to save all the programs, data, that remains on the 10 gb hd. If we do a clean install, including format, there goes the baby with the bath water, I fear. But, that, in the end, might be the only way to get out of this dillemma. Again, thanks, j

After you install xp on the new drive you should be able to copy the contents from the old drive to the new one.

What happens if you ghost the drive, then re-install XP (Not Repair) Over that XP Installation - Install it all to the same directories and see what happens then.

Yes you are correct you are supposed to be able to move images around PC's as i have done it many a time even with NT Server, but i can pose problems with Drivers and hardware sometimes.

CM :D

Hi: To all, muich thanks. Quite a think tank out there. Decided, after a lot of checking, to clean down the drive, reinstall XP Home Ed., and be done with it. The best counsel seems to be this: XP Home is not the best OS to tinker with and expect great things Rather, the best judgment seems to be that XP Pro is the way to go, and had we been dealing with the Pro edition, things would have gone on with much of a hitch. But XP Home? The best thinking had it that it was best to just clean it all down and do a clean install with XP Home. Took this course, and reloaded what was salvagable. Again, to all: Much thanks, and have a great week. Regards, j