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From: Some Guy 
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:13:37 -0500
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james@nospam.com, while using improper usenet message composition style 
by unnecessarily full-quoting an entire thread, wrote:

> I have a desktop computer

Good.

Go get yourself a copy of Norton Ghost 2003.  There should be a floppy 
image of it floating around the internet somewhere.  Burn the image to a 
floppy.  (maybe burn isin't the right term, but you get the idea).

Set your motherboard to boot from floppy.  Put the floppy in the drive.

If you have a ps/2 mouse, plug it into the motherboard.  If you don't, 
then that might be a problem.  If your motherboard has IDE ports (which 
you say it does) then it should have ps/2 mouse port.

Next, unplug all existing drives in the system from the motherboard. 
You don't want them connected to the motherboard during cloning.

Now, you have the drive you want to clone (a 40 gb ide) and the drive 
you want as the destination of the clone (160 gb).

Connect both of those drives to the motherboard.  Doesn't matter how or 
to which IDE port.

Next, boot the system from the floppy.

Ghost will start.  Ask you a few questions - say no to forensic 
identification.

Choose copy - disk to disk

Choose the source drive.  It will be the 40 gb drive.

Choose the destination drive.  It will be the 160 gb drive.

It will show you the layout of the destination drive - the volume sizes 
will be increased because the destination drive is larger.

Tell it to start the copy.  Yes, you know that everything on the 
destination drive will be wiped out.

Copy will happen at anywhere from 800 mb/sec to maybe double that, 
depending on how new / fast the motherboard is.

When it's done, close Ghost and turn off the computer, disconnect your 
drives, install the 160 gb drive in the laptop and see if it boots.

Ghost normally duplicates most aspects of the source drive, like volume 
serial number (VSN).  XP will do a check of hardware at boot and you 
will lose a vote for having a different drive-size but will not lose the 
VSN vote.  There'a a program called xpinfo.exe that will tell you how 
many votes your system currently has.  You need 5 for XP to remain 
validated.  You get 3 just from the MAC address, 1 for amount of ram, 1 
for video card, 2 or 3 for the hard drive (size, VSN, maybe something 
else).  If you go below 5 votes, XP will force you to reconnect with the 
Micro$haft mothership and re-validate your XP installation.
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