http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/transfer-xp-hard-drive/ Fri, 24 May 2013 07:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/transfer-xp-hard-drive/#comment-80470 valmsmith Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:56:19 +0000 #comment-80470 I have a client who for one reason or another uses “pullouts” for his PCs, and interchanges the drives at his discretion, frequently. His PCs are both amd and intel platforms using various versions of Windows. When he swaps main drives between the PCs the worst time he has is going from Intel to AMD. He has successfully done this for years, and it always has worked. When he first boots up the PC DOES do the little “let’s find the correct drivers for this drive” and as it does so it asks for the Windos CD/DVD if it needs/or wants it, once it has finished finding what it needs, then it goes on it’s merry way and works as though it started out in that PC. For the few small problems he has had doing this it is really a time saver if it will work for you. I would recommend that before you start you save all your pertinent and “special” info to a safe place in case there is a problem where you would have to reformat (God forbid )

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/transfer-xp-hard-drive/#comment-80362 quiqui Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:12:31 +0000 #comment-80362 My C: drive is the main 40G drive in my computer, and I installed a 500G on my E: drive as a secondary drive. Can I copy all info from C: to E:, then switch E: as primary and C: as secondary, or, would I need to do the switch (make E: the main drive) and download the OS disk?

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