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Will windows product activation prevent Windows XP Professional from being moved to a
larger drive?
I moved from an 80G drive (with one partition) to a 250G drive (with two partitions).
On the 250G, partitions were created and formatted with Partition Magic 8, then files
cloned over using Norton Ghost 2003. Drive is FAT32, so I can still boot from a floppy.
Now, with the new drive, Windows will boot, but it will get to the Windows welcome
screen and then stop. Even in Safe Mode, it won't let me finish the boot process, not
even to get to the command prompt.
A search of the web show that this is a somewhat common problem when moving XP to a
significantly larger drive. Some people theorize that Windows Product Activation won't
let you move Windows to a new larger drive because it might be pirating (even though
it's all the same motherboard, etc).
larger drive?
I moved from an 80G drive (with one partition) to a 250G drive (with two partitions).
On the 250G, partitions were created and formatted with Partition Magic 8, then files
cloned over using Norton Ghost 2003. Drive is FAT32, so I can still boot from a floppy.
Now, with the new drive, Windows will boot, but it will get to the Windows welcome
screen and then stop. Even in Safe Mode, it won't let me finish the boot process, not
even to get to the command prompt.
A search of the web show that this is a somewhat common problem when moving XP to a
significantly larger drive. Some people theorize that Windows Product Activation won't
let you move Windows to a new larger drive because it might be pirating (even though
it's all the same motherboard, etc).