Vista - RE: Upgrading from XP to Vista and moving to a new drive

Buddy,

How did you "move" the Vista partition to the new drive? If you just did a
copy from within Vista, it will not work. Most HD drives come with software
to move a complete image of one hard disk to another. The software that you
used to initialize and partition the new drive should have this option.
Anyway, you need to move the partition image to the new hard disk instead of
just the partition files. As you noted, some files will not copy over if they
are in use by the operating system.


"Buddy H" wrote:

> Perhaps this problem was address already but I could not find an exact
> circumstance: I have a computer that has a 80 gig drive with XP. I UPGRADED
> to Vista Home Premium. I then installed a Larger 320 gig drive. With the
> included software, I partition the 320 as one drive (partition). Because I
> thought I could transfer everything over to the newer 320 gig drive, I
> installed Vista on the newer drive. All my programs and everything is now on
> the newer drive. Certain window files could not be moved. Also, w hen I
> changed to boot to the newer drive; I read no OS found. How can I have
> everything (totally) transferred to the newer. I tied several things but no
> success. Anyone's help would be appreciated. Thanks.