Clone of Xp + programs — Can I place this overtop?

Alright so.
I have my fathers work computer, outdated with the hard drive failing.
I was able to make a clone of the entire hard drive + OS with Norton Ghost and able to put it onto a External.
I have a new computer, with a fresh install of windows Xp installed recently onto it.
If i recover the img file from Norton Ghost, with the XP already on it, onto the XP system, would there be able errors, or will it transfer over, correctly, since they are both xp?
Please, any help is possible.
I did try to google search this problem, but nothing of interest came up after quite a bit of searching.
Thank you!
Answer #1
It should work fine. Try it. You have nothing to lose other than a fresh XP installation.
Answer #2
more than likely it won’t work, different hardware
but you may be able to do a repair install on it to get it working
Answer #3
edwoodweb replied: more than likely it won't work, different hardware
but you may be able to do a repair install on it to get it working
Correct. You will get hardware errors and with some work you can fix this.
Why did you not just backup the important files and programs and just add then to the new install of xp?
Answer #4
edwoodweb replied: more than likely it won't work, different hardware
but you may be able to do a repair install on it to get it working
XP will pick up the different hardware at boot and install the relevant drivers. No different to adding a new card or drive to an existing setup.
Answer #5
Hi, I’ll add to above. You usually cannot transfer an operating system hard drive from one PC to another because the motherboard is different and will not accept the OS from another computer. However, the easiest way to duplicate a hard drive is to clone it with Spotmau Power Suite which you should be able to find via Google and question warez spotmau
It takes about 30 minutes to clone a hard drive, irrespective of if it is Win 7 or XP with all of the partitions and software, files and ? duplicated from one hard drive to the other. The only requirement is that the hard drive you clone, is no smaller than the hard drive you clone from, it does not matter if the new hard drive is bigger.
I have cloned each of my Win7 computer hard drives, so that I have 2 backup hard drives per PC = 3 in all. You can buy 2nd hand hard drives up to around 120GB for around $15 each from e.Bay and once formatted, they are great to clone to.
BigBenn
Answer #6
I’m with edwoodweb on this one, It probably wouldn’t work.
You’d be best just copying back selected files/folders from the image, Install ghost, Then mount it on a virtual drive
so you could browse it.
Answer #7
XP will pick up the different hardware at boot and install the relevant drivers.
this is true if your new hard drive controller on the mobo is the same as the old one
otherwise (which is most cases) it will blue screen at boot
the hard drive controller is one of the 1st things to load, before the “found new hardware” function is available