Shoeberto
05-06-2006, 06:10 PM
Okay. Want to ditch old, slow, probably dying hard drive. It has my XP installation. To prevent having to reinstall everything (+registry conflicts from programs installed on my second drive) I want an easy way to get my old XP install on my new drive.
A few months ago, someone suggested using dd in Linux. That's an option, albeit a seemingly more difficult one - made even more difficult by the fact that I already put a decent bit of stuff on my new drive, and have this feeling that the bit-for-bit data transfer would get rid of a lot of stuff.
So here's my situation, which I can't seem to find an answer to. My current installation is SP1, because SP2 sucks pretty bad. However, all I seem to be able to find is a slipstreamed SP2 install disk. Now, if I use the backup utility from my SP1 installation, and then install cleanly on the new drive with SP2, then use the backup utility to restore from my SP1 backup file, will there be any major problems or conflicts? The only thing I was able to find was someone saying to upgrade to SP2 immediately after doing this, but they didn't give a reason why - I don't know if they said it because it would cause massive system instability, or jsut because they're MS fanboys and are trying to push SP2 on people as much as possible.
A few months ago, someone suggested using dd in Linux. That's an option, albeit a seemingly more difficult one - made even more difficult by the fact that I already put a decent bit of stuff on my new drive, and have this feeling that the bit-for-bit data transfer would get rid of a lot of stuff.
So here's my situation, which I can't seem to find an answer to. My current installation is SP1, because SP2 sucks pretty bad. However, all I seem to be able to find is a slipstreamed SP2 install disk. Now, if I use the backup utility from my SP1 installation, and then install cleanly on the new drive with SP2, then use the backup utility to restore from my SP1 backup file, will there be any major problems or conflicts? The only thing I was able to find was someone saying to upgrade to SP2 immediately after doing this, but they didn't give a reason why - I don't know if they said it because it would cause massive system instability, or jsut because they're MS fanboys and are trying to push SP2 on people as much as possible.