Can I move Windows from one hard drive to another?

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Hi, Leo

my question that can you move applications from pc to onother, without re-installing them.

It varies dramatically based on the application. By far the best approach is to reinstall.

can i move a working master hd with xp, to a new pc and use it as a master?

I had to replace my boot drive in my PC. For some reason after loading the OS, it is showing up as drive I instead of C. The system sees a memory card reader as drive C. How do I change this? The boot drive is configured as the Master.

howzit my name is ian ,i want know to can i move or copy my windows xp to another drive that is currently a slave driver cause the main one is only a 20gb and the slave driver is 160gb and there's not much space on the 20gb left

Ok - I've read through the article and comments, and am still somewhat confused.

Here is my situation. I have 2 physical drives, a 6 GB drive that is the primary (C:) drive, and which has Win XP on it. The 2nd is a 80 GB that is the slave, and is partitioned into 2 sections (D: [50GB] and E: [30GB]). Several months ago, in order to save space, I changed my windows documents/temp folders to the E: drive. This has worked well.

6 GB is not enough to house Win XP any longer, though. I recently replaced the MB/Proc/memory, and ended up (for some reason) having to reinstall Windows, again onto C:, and this is proving problematic to upgrade properly for lack of space - I have basically trimmed all non-essential files, and still am short.

So I want to move my OS onto the D: drive, but without really losing any info on any drive, as restoring backups is painful. I do not really want to change the partition scheme on the big drive unless I really have to, and/or it makes a LOT of sense to do so. What is the best course of action? I am to the point of considering buying a new (bigger) hard drive and just doing a clean install on to it, then manually transferring other files to it from the 6 GB, which will then be a F: drive, or just go in the bin. The down side to this is that my wife will kill me if I spend another penny on the computer...

Any ideas?

My hd is fried and wont boot to it. Error message
says it cant find it.
Can I install windows to an external hd after I change the boot order?

thanks Leo

Concerning the original question, I found this:

From: http://www.futurehardware.in/63575.htm

Moving Win XP to new drive problem. Note more >>>'s mean older parts of thread.

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2nd post on this subject from me:

From: http://windows.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/moving-windows-xp-to-a-new-hard-disk-2263

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How do I move the pagefile.sys off c: to another drive

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