I6000 hard drive

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@Mordeeb wrote:
i have an I6000 54000 rpm 40 gb hard drive and it came with windows xP on it and i didn't get a windows XP cd nor did i get a restore CD but i did get a word perfect CD now what i want to do is change my hard drive to a bigger and faster one if i get a 2.5 inch case can i copy all my old hard drive to the new one? or can i not copy windows XP

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Using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question.

Asked daily.

You can contact Dell for an XP CD, or you can use Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image to copy the drive, but you cannot just copy it via Windows.

Systems shipped after July 15, 2004 came with Symantec PC Restore. This utility restores the computer to an "as-shipped" condition. If you haven't reformatted, repartitioned, or otherwise modified the master boot record, it should work. Click here for instructions about Symantec PC Restore.

If the Symantec PC Restore utility won't work, but still resides on your computer, a Dell customer has figured out some ways to get it to work again. Note - If you removed this partition, it is not recoverable, cannot be downloaded from the internet, and cannot be shipped from Dell. Click here for ways to fix Symantec PC Restore. Users have also reported that the partition can be restored with Ghost 2003, and Ghost 9 using the '03 capabilities of it. If you boot to the Ghost 9 CD, select Advanced Recovery Taks, select Utilities, then Restore Legacy IMage it should work - but you want to verify the image before attempting the restore. It's in a folder called IMG.

Systems that shipped beginning in early 2005 may ship without Windows XP. There SHOULD be (but sometimes isn't) a utility on your computer to run and create the Windows XP CD, unless your computer shipped after 7/15/05 in which case you have to call Dell and beg. This is a RUN ONCE utility. Click here for instructions to create your Windows XP CD. Some users have reported needing to reboot a few times to get this utility to show up on the menu. You can also contact Dell and request a CD and wait for it to ship, see the link at the bottom of my signature.

Do what I did. Email dell and ask them for a back up os cd. I ordered a I6000 a couple of weeks ago and the day it was delivered I emailed Dell and they overnighted me the XP Media Center DVD and the other two CD's that have the back up apps on it. I was ver impressed. No charge either.

If you want, I can give you the email address and name of the dell rep that helped me.