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Moving hard drive & programs from "old" to "new" computer

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Davermonk

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Hope this is the right place for this.


My current computer (A7V 266E, VIA chipset; AMD CPU) has one 40 GB (IDE 100) hard drive with XP and all my other programs (Adobe, MS Office, games etc) and another 40 GB (IDE 100) HD that serves as data storage (no RAID setup).

I'll be upgrading it this weekend with a new mobo (Asus A8N5X, nVidia chipset), new AMD Athon X2 CPU, new graphics card, etc. I also ordered a 250GB (SATA) hard drive.

My goal is to be able to use the programs from the "old" hard drive without having to reinstall all of them on the "new" hard drive (except for WinXP).

I don't think I can put the "new" HD into the old system (to clone) because the new drive is SATA and the old system's mobo doesn't have any SATA connectors.


What do you think about this...

1. Put only the "old" HD into new system, and use windows repair to get new system to boot from "old" HD (due to all the new hardware)

2. Add "new" HD into new system as slave and clone the "old" HD onto "new" HD

3. Set "old" HD as slave and "new" HD as master. Would I have to use windows repair again to get it to work?

Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
Do a clean install on the new drive. Reinstall your software. You will save yourself a lot of headaches in the long run. Windows doesn't like being switched from system to system. There's a good chance, even with repair install, that something driver wise will conflict and you'll get instability and undesired effects.
 
I would highly recommend against this. Unless you somehow put your new HD into your old system (might be hard without SATA :)) and clone it that way. You still have to run some sort of Sysprep utility to reinstall your drivers, etc. etc.

At that point it's faster to rienstall from scratch.

Cloning is great for some things, but not when swapping out that much hardware.
 
A repair install might work.

Also, if you're really serious, you should be able to export the registry keys and copy the files to the new drive/installation root, then reimport the rgeistry keys. Provided that the programs are in the same location on the new setup as they were on the old one, they will work.

Zipping 8GB worth of UT2004 mods and downloads between HDDs at ~50MB/sec is quite a bit quicker than reinstalling UT2004 from optical then reinstalling all of the mods and redownloading the maps.

However, do not perform this procedure on any program that actually mucks with the OS. AntiVirus, Utilities, Firewalls, Office suites, etc.
 
DougLite said:
...Zipping 8GB worth of UT2004 mods and downloads between HDDs at ~50MB/sec is quite a bit quicker than reinstalling UT2004 from optical then reinstalling all of the mods and redownloading the maps...
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that's why you create .iso images of your install cd's and use a program like daemon tools....when it comes time to reinstall, it's much, much faster.....then you just copy all your maps/mods that don't require an actual "install", per se, into the newly-created installation directory.

of course, that would require storing those images on the hard drive, but i personally think it's worth the space requirements. i do this with WoW when i have to reinstall, and it takes a LOT less time to reinstall that way. and for anyone that plays WoW, you know just exactly how excruciatingly long installing from the cd's can be.....
 
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