Sonic 0 #1 November 16, 2002 Is it possible to move an operating system accross drives (from C to D) without having to reinstall? Or what about reinstalling it and transerring all setting accross? [edit] Windows XP Pro----------------------------------- It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christoofar 0 #2 November 16, 2002 Quote Is it possible to move an operating system accross drives (from C to D) without having to reinstall? Or what about reinstalling it and transerring all setting accross? [edit] Windows XP Pro It's a pain in the ass to xfer your operating system to another partition. Reinstalling will keep the worries down. Think of all the 1,000s of registry entries that have a path that starts with "C:\..." in them somewhere. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bwilling 0 #3 November 16, 2002 well... it's possible to just 'move' the OS and all the apps from one drive to another, but it will break lots of stuff. When the OS and (most) apps install these days, they write settings they need to the Windows registry... settings that may/will still be referring to the OLD drive letter, until you manually change them using regedit, or re-install... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spy38W 0 #4 November 16, 2002 Silly question, but why do you want to do this? -- Hook high, flare on time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #5 November 16, 2002 hmmm... just copy? Are you a masochist? IT can be done, BUT A) you'd really want to use some kind of imaging software to do it (Like Ghost) because there are many files that won't just COPY over (System files) B) You will need to switch the drives to make the D drive the new C, nothing will work otherwise.. It CAN be done by hand, BUT to be honest, if you have to ask the question, you probably don't have the knowledge to do it on your own. Also, the time it would take to go thru everything and change it, I could rebuild the computer using the install cd's and have finished a few beersI promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
