Resolved Cloning XP Home To A Network Drive

Is this possible?

My brother wants me to install a new HD on his PC, but he has room for only one drive. I told him to buy an external enclosure and clone the drive that way, but he doesn't want to buy one right now, so I was thinking about making his new drive a network drive in my machine, and cloning his old one over to it via network connections.

 

Depends on what program you are using to clone the drive.

It would be better if you could connect BOTH his drive in your computer & then clone the old drive. It would be much faster & almost every cloning util [even free ones] would do the job.

 

On second thought I'll have to scratch the idea.

I went brain dead and forgot his drives are SATA, and mine are PATA. In addition, my board will not support anything over 160gb (his new drive is 250gb).

I guess my only option is to clone XP Home via the already mentioned external drive kit, or just re-install the OS (Fun! ) after I install the replacement drive.

 

A fresh install is always preferable as you get rid of many problems in the old setup.

 

I installed the new Seagate hard-drive with no issues, and I am now installing XP Home updates, along with 3rd party software.

In addition, I replaced the old memory (2 banks of 256mb) with 2 banks 512mb from Crucial...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146521

Everest say's the memory timings have jumped up a notch to
*333MHz 5.0-5-5-15
*266MHz 4.0-4-4-12
*200MHz 3.0-3-3-9

The old memory readings never went over 266MHz.

What do these readings mean? Which setting does the new memory use, or does it use all three at various times?

Edit: Link to new drive...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148451

 

Right off hand I don't remember how to check the current memory frequency. I assume the BIOS would tell me, but I never saw a way to manually change the clock speed...which is something I don't do anyway.

I was contemplating re-installing the old RAM, along with the new, but I don't want to dumb the system down any. I've yet to see this machine use much over 50 percent of its current memory capacity.

 

You can mix the old & new RAM provided the board supports it. However, the system would use the lowest specifications of either RAM. In your case it would be 266 MHz.