could I move windows?

Lamilia

Lamilia

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I want to know if i can drag all of those windows files from one hard drive and put them on another hard drive and have like a clean install of windows on that hard drive. I don't need the windows to still be on the first hard drive but if something goes wrong could i just drag the files back and have it working again? I'm talking about windows xp by the way.
 
No. Best you could do is use a mirroring program like Norton's Ghost.

If something goes wrong with the install, you have nothing to lose by reinstalling again. Be sure to back up all your data before you do anything, though.
 
why don't you just do a fresh windowws install on the second drive, get it working the way you want, and then get rid of the odl copy?
 
suprasteve said:
why don't you just do a fresh windowws install on the second drive, get it working the way you want, and then get rid of the odl copy?
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Some MS cd's won't let the user reinstall windows from that cd. The user may have the call Microsoft and give details on the problem and MS might give them another activation code (key code).
 
nevermind I can spend the $80-90 on a windows cd now not a problem :)

EDIT: ok now i want to know if there is a program to delete everything except the windows files (like a clean install) or if i would just be better of deleting everything myself because i dont have the restore cds that came with the pc that i got the hard drive from sorry for not putting any .s in there im a bit busy
 
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you can just go into add/remove programs and remove all the programs from there (don't remove windows installer). you'll have to delete all other files, or programs not listed in the add/remove programs window manually. you should also then do a defrag on your hard drive.
 
pwan7505 said:
you can just go into add/remove programs and remove all the programs from there (don't remove windows installer). you'll have to delete all other files, or programs not listed in the add/remove programs window manually. you should also then do a defrag on your hard drive.
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ok i think im going to do that for now to save some money.
 
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