New Harddrive with new problems

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lindsaypace

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I have installed a seagate 80gb harddrive. My old WD 80gb is still on my system. i copied the complete WD onto the seagate without a problem. So I now use the seagate as a master and the WD as slave. I deleted everything on the WD when I reformated it. Since then my System Restore will not work and it looks like the Window Installer is also missing (even thought I have downloaded a 3.0 and 3.1 from Microsoft).
My question is can I do a fresh Installation on my old harddrive (WD) and reboot windows from that? And then can I take all the drivers and patches from my new (Seagate) harddrive?
What I am wondering is basically can I do a complete restoreration on one drive and use the info from the other harddrive without having to back up my system on a blank DVD?
 
Forgot to mentiom my system
Gateway tower
2.53 mgh P4
533 system bus
XP operating system
1024 Ram
6800 Nivida Video Card with 128ram
ZS Audigy Sound card
2 Liteon DVD burners
 
did you run the WD diags on the WD HD to make sure it does have any bad sectors ?

The anser is a deffinate maybe..... :)

basically windows has what is called the registry, so if you boot a windows os from another hd you will be loading that registry and not the one on your slave drive ( seagate), so only the programs on the master drive ( the WD ) will work. There are a few programs like quicken you can still run, most can not be run from the slave drive. There are 2 options
1. do an inplace install on the SEAGATE, this will replace all the system files and leave the data,,,, it works quite well as long as you do not have spyware or viruses. back up any data you may need ( just in case) ,,, boot from the xp cd, do just like you are installing xp for the first time, go almost to the end of the text mode part of the install when XP finds your previously installed xp and asks you what you want to do with it, there should be an option to repair the installation, select this. you may need your xp cd key
and it will reset your SAM.

2. Do a fresh install onto the WD and reinstall all your programs.
 
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