Is There Anyway to Transfer all Settings/Installed Files to Identical OS on Same Comp?
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I'm using XP Professional SP3 and have 3 hard drives. The installation I use for everything is on my C: drive which I've had for years now and my D: drive is a new hard drive I got after another hard drive failed last year (which didn't have windows installed but managed to fuck my comp up anyway) and I took it in to get repaired after spending days trying just about everything. The guy reinstalled windows and gave me the new hard drive and everything was fixed. Windows was installed on the new drive as well and my old drive, the C:, had its windows reinstalled as well. After this happened I kept using my C: installation I'm guessing the D: installation was left over from the last time it was fixed.
Recently I began to receive winsrv.dll errors at startup as a BSOD so I booted up ERD commander (because I don't have my original install disk) and used chkdsk /r. After chkdsk told me there were multiple unreadable areas and that winsrv was corrupted it promptly quit due to "unknown errors." This is also the time I learned windows was installed on the D: drive as well and it was also XP Professional SP3. So in a last ditch effort I attempted to simply delete winsrv from the C: and replace it with the one from the D: because I didn't think my hard drive was failing. I booted up on the D: installation for the first time so naturally it's a completely blank desktop and nothing's installed so I run chkdsk one last time and get the same errors. I also tried everything the internet suggests about the winsrv error which is normally an SP2 error but I'm convinced this time it's from a failing HDD.
Now I went into system 32 and tried to delete winsrv. That naturally didn't work so I used the command prompt and del /f which didn't work due to a cyclic redundancy error. From what I've been reading the CRC error is indicative of a corrupted or failing hard drive and that it can only be fixed by chkdsk. Of course chkdsk doesn't work so I've come to the conclusion that my hard drive is failing. I plan on getting the drive cloned Monday to salvage everything I can but in the mean time is there any possible way to transfer all my old settings/installations etc. from my old windows installation to the new one? All the data is there and my D: and E: drive still work fine I just don't want to have to reinstall 100s of gigabytes of data. Eventually when I upgrade probably around Christmas I will without a doubt be getting Windows 7 which is long overdue and probably a new comp but I really don't want to have to reinstall all my shit when there's possibly a way to transfer.
Ignore this I got it working. After about 6 hours of running Chkdsk /f and /r somehow it actually worked. The corrupted sectors amounted to about 100 kbs of data :v:
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