Windows XP Installation

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 22 Dec 2001 10:31 am

If you're just worried about transfering files from your old computer to the new one, the easiest and fastest way is to temporarily install your old drive in your new system. The simplest way to do that is to mount it to your second IDE controller with its own cable, then you don't have to worry about changing jumpers to make it a slave drive. This may require unplugging your CDROM drive during this process but that's no biggie either.

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 22 Dec 2001 7:17 pm

Actually there is a cool program called "Ghost" by Norton that will clone your old drive to the new one including the operating system with no effort whatsoever~

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 27 Dec 2001 6:03 am

Helpful information on Windows XP...
tips, requirements, new gear.....
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-6688749.html?tag=ld

Bob Shilling · Post by **Bob Shilling** » 3 Jan 2002 11:24 am

Well, I had the files transferred at CompUSA. They didn't really get all the ones I wanted, but they DID get all the data files, and those were the only ones that were really important to me.

XP doesn't like old software very much, but most of mine needed upgrading anyhoo. Sll in all I'm pretty happy with it.

The PC-to-PC thing seems mainly set up for XP-to-XP machines. I'll have to study it a bit more, for if it can work on the old PC, it could be quite useful.

I just got back from the Southern California Desert

, so Happy New Year to all.

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Bob Shilling, Berkeley, CA--MSA S10, "Classic"