Hard Drive transfer
Season's greetings etc.
Query for the gurus - I need to transfer the whole contents of SWMBO's HD to a new, faster machine. First thought was to put old HD on new machine as slave drive and copy across - new machine won't boot but resumes normal operation once the old HD is disconnected. Have tried similar with several other HDs with similar results. The problem drives all have a Windows XP OS installed (as does the new machine). Is there something in WinXP which won't allow two copies to live on the same machine, even if only one is on the boot drive? Any thoughts as to how to effect the transfer otherwise, please?
TIA