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From: Vinni on 6 Feb 2010 05:27
I want to upgrade to a new PC and put my old XP in the new machine. (Later
I'll install Win 7.)

This is what I have now: XP Pro Volume Licence, AMD Duron processor and
VIA SV266A chipset. The hard drive is IDE.

First I'll copy the XP partition to a new SATA drive but what do I do after
that?
From: Darklight on 6 Feb 2010 06:09
Vinni wrote:

> I want to upgrade to a new PC and put my old XP in the new machine.
> (Later I'll install Win 7.)
>
> This is what I have now: XP Pro Volume Licence, AMD Duron processor and
> VIA SV266A chipset. The hard drive is IDE.
>
> First I'll copy the XP partition to a new SATA drive but what do I do
> after that?

i have a funny feeling you can't do that because the drivers will be
different. One of the reasons for bring out a new os is to keep up
with the new hardware and take advantage of it. Hence windows 7 is so large
because of all the drivers it has on it. question how old is you cpu and
mother board?

you would be better off installing win7 on new pc hook up the old hard drive
on the ide connection transfer your files to win7. or get an external
enclosure for you ide hard drive then transfere your files then you will
have a safe place to put important files that no one can access. Then get
virtualbox install that in win 7 then install winxp in virtualbox.

that way you would be able to run win7 and winxp at the same time so there
would be no reason to dual boot.
From: philo on 6 Feb 2010 07:14
Vinni wrote:
> I want to upgrade to a new PC and put my old XP in the new machine. (Later
> I'll install Win 7.)
>
> This is what I have now: XP Pro Volume Licence, AMD Duron processor and
> VIA SV266A chipset. The hard drive is IDE.
>
> First I'll copy the XP partition to a new SATA drive but what do I do after
> that?


Due to the different hardware XP will not boot up
so don't bother.

Just go right to win7


If you need to transfer data, just network the two machines

or put the drive from the old on in an external USB enclosure
From: TVeblen on 6 Feb 2010 07:49
On 2/6/2010 5:27 AM, Vinni wrote:
> I want to upgrade to a new PC and put my old XP in the new machine. (Later
> I'll install Win 7.)
>
> This is what I have now: XP Pro Volume Licence, AMD Duron processor and
> VIA SV266A chipset. The hard drive is IDE.
>
> First I'll copy the XP partition to a new SATA drive but what do I do after
> that?

Hopefully you are talking about copying a disk image of the entire
system drive (C:). Just "cut and paste" will result in problems.
You would then need to attempt a Repair Installation of XP. You will
need your XP CD to do this. When you boot the computer (it will not boot
the OS at all) with the CD in the drive you will be presented with the
option to press F6 to load SATA drivers, which you must do so to use a
SATA drive with XP (Windows 7 and Vista have SATA drivers built in). The
SATA drivers should be on the motherboard CD, or on the manufacturer
website. You will need these on a floppy disk or a USB thumbdrive.
After that you will get to a menu that will offer the option to do a
repair install. You will need all the current XP drivers for your new
hardware available.
You would be best advised to do a search for "XP Repair Installation"
and read up on the details and tips. My post is only an overview.
A clean installation would be your best option however, IMHO.
From: John McGaw on 6 Feb 2010 09:06
On 2/6/2010 5:27 AM, Vinni wrote:
> I want to upgrade to a new PC and put my old XP in the new machine. (Later
> I'll install Win 7.)
>
> This is what I have now: XP Pro Volume Licence, AMD Duron processor and
> VIA SV266A chipset. The hard drive is IDE.
>
> First I'll copy the XP partition to a new SATA drive but what do I do after
> that?

While XP will run on new hardware (I have it running on a very new i7 X58
system) I doubt that simply moving the install over in any way will end
well. In the best of all possible worlds it might boot and run well enough
for you to do a repair install of the OS and add the new drivers but I
doubt that it would get far enough. Oh, and simply copying the XP partition
to the new drive would not work; you would need to do an image rather than
a simple copy -- you need the boot information.
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