Hi all,

I have a PackardBell easynote laptop W3301.

Installed on my laptop I have win xp home. When I bought this laptop new it came with xp all pre installed with no disks. I have now bought myself a new upgraded HD to replace old.

I do not want to transfer all data accross from old to new as I would like to add my stuff manually again. So all I want is the existing win xp instalation to be placed onto a bootable cd/dvd.

I would like to have on the boot cd all the stuff that originally came with laptop like all drivers, ATI graffics etc and not just plan old xp.

How do I create a boot disk with my existing xp on it?????



I have tried many ways of doing this. I have two partitions on pc, 1 is unhidden and my main C drive and the other is Backup hidden. I tried following a guide on internet that said to find the files, Boot.ini, NTLDR, Ntdetect.com and a couple more and then burn these files to disk. Prob is that I found the files using Partition Magic 8 but they are in my BACKUP hidden files, (i can see them but can not copy them).


I am very keen to find out how this is done before I go mad.

Any help is much appreciated.


Thanks

Howdy sturt007 and welcome to PC help Forum,

There amy be a way to do this, but it may be hard as when XP was installed on your origanal hard drive it put a hardware abstraction layer into it.. This means when installing XP onto the new hard drive without the backup disc's will make it harder..

I would call HP and have em send you the disc's, they have to. It will make it alot easier and may save you some troubles trying to reactivate XP