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11-08-2007
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| | This will make you think Master is 320Gb SATA partitioned with XP Pro on first partition and files on the second. Second hard drive is 250Gb IDE with Vista Ultimate. The reason being didnt want to screw up WinXP which was running fine. Now after 6 months I have finally got Vista where I want it with all software and device drivers installed. Can I transfer Vista to the second partition of my SATA drive (using Acronis or Norton Ghost) and dual boot both from the SATA drive freeing up my IDE drive for files, or will it be a new installation |
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11-09-2007
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| | Re: This will make you think Hi, You may be able to image the drive and paste it onto the other volume, but you will need to alter the bootloader to match the new location. The hardware changes perceived by Vista may cause the system to require reactivation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "prp77" <prp77@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:AB3BACAD-6151-4D97-A128-5ED1C0671F2B@xxxxxx Quote: > Master is 320Gb SATA partitioned with XP Pro on first partition and files > on > the second. Second hard drive is 250Gb IDE with Vista Ultimate. The reason > being didnt want to screw up WinXP which was running fine. Now after 6 > months > I have finally got Vista where I want it with all software and device > drivers > installed. Can I transfer Vista to the second partition of my SATA drive > (using Acronis or Norton Ghost) and dual boot both from the SATA drive > freeing up my IDE drive for files, or will it be a new installation |
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11-09-2007
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| | Re: This will make you think Hi Thanks for the heads up on this. If I need to go through all the hastle of reactivating the software again I may as well do a fresh install on the second partition. Thanks for the quick response. prp77 "Rick Rogers" wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > You may be able to image the drive and paste it onto the other volume, but > you will need to alter the bootloader to match the new location. The > hardware changes perceived by Vista may cause the system to require > reactivation. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org > My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > > "prp77" <prp77@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:AB3BACAD-6151-4D97-A128-5ED1C0671F2B@xxxxxx Quote: > > Master is 320Gb SATA partitioned with XP Pro on first partition and files > > on > > the second. Second hard drive is 250Gb IDE with Vista Ultimate. The reason > > being didnt want to screw up WinXP which was running fine. Now after 6 > > months > > I have finally got Vista where I want it with all software and device > > drivers > > installed. Can I transfer Vista to the second partition of my SATA drive > > (using Acronis or Norton Ghost) and dual boot both from the SATA drive > > freeing up my IDE drive for files, or will it be a new installation > |
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