Moving Files and Operating System to a new drive on the same system
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I am running WINXP SP3 and have Acronis installed. My C; drive has serious problems so I re installed windows on an IDE drive(E:) and made a cloned image of E:. The question is when I install the new HDs can I simply copy the cloned image to C: and have it operational, or do I need to install windows first and then move the image file?
Thank for any help


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Thanks, you have suggested another option. I do know the difference between Cloned and backup images I was simply not clear about the best way to go. Someone said that I could copy the cloned image and then do a repair with the WinXP CD.
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If cloning goes wrong, *both* disks might be damaged.
Much less risk trough a backup, swap, restore procedure: the original disk is out of the system.
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Having finally gotten the system running I would have to say that your original advice was totally with out merit. It did not work at all. I ended up cloning the the IDE drive to the RAID array and it worked flawlessly.
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I am glad it worked.
I am curious knowing what didn't work when you followed my recommended procedure, because this is the same you would do if you had to restore your system from backup...
I am just worried that the restore didn't work for some reason. You'd better make sure you can do a restore...
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The backup from the IDE drive would not install in the new C: drive. I have no explanation about why that was but, it kept saying to retry and never worked..
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