After the cloning

[wayneout]

Hello,
My computer is now in the middle of cloning.
(it is a 2%) So, I had to borrow my wife's laptop.
My computer gave me a page fault error before
I started the cloning. This has happened a couple
of times in the last three months. I don't know if this
has anything to do with my old drive or Windows XP.
It happened today as I was trying to to a windows update.
After I finish the cloning and make sure that the new
drive works, I was thinking of wiping the old drive and
installing windows again. Can TrueImage help me with
any of this? When I reinstall Windows on the old drive,
do I have to put it back as the main drive again or can
I leave it in the secondary position?
After I have reinstalled Windows on the old drive, I
would like to use TrueImage to put the programs back
on the old drive from the new drive. But I would have
to copy the registry files and all that. Is there a operation
in TrueImage to do this?
I might be getting ahead of myself, but I have a few days
off and I wanted to try and fix everything.
Thanks,
Bill
Oh, and since my computer is in the middle of cloning,
I wouldn't get any emails about replies.

[Xpilot]

The exact wording of the page fault error would be the key to fixing it. I would copy it word for word into Google and there is a 99% chance that the solution would present itself in one of the first few results.

One of the checks that should be done to a HDD when errors show up is to run CHKDSK R for all the partitions on the drive. A clone will faithfully carry forward any uncorrected errors to the new HDD including any sectors that have been identified and are marked as bad. Resizing by a small amount when cloning will avoid good sectors being marked as bad if there were any on the old drive.

Programs have to be installed. A new installation of the OS would mean a reinstallation of all your programs.
I hope you realise the amount of time that this will take and the effort involved even if you have kept copies of all the installation CDs or downloaded installation files.
Not forgetting of course the volume of XP critical and security updates that will have to be downloaded and installed. FWIW my XP SP2 OS would need 77 Windows updates just for starters.

When your cloning finished I hope you remembered to take out the old drive and put the cloned one in the first position before re-booting.

Xpilot

[wayneout]

Yes, I remembered to disconnect it and change the positions of the
cable. I plan to reconnect it tomorrow however in the secondary position.
I really don't want to redo the whole thing unless I have to.
But using Google for errors so far has panned out in some cases.
I sometimes have a shutdown error that when I google, I get a bunch
of different causes for the error. When it happens again, (hopefully
not soon) I will try that see what happens.
Thanks,
Bill