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new hard drive + old hard drive
I think I need you guys help here.
My old custom-built computer's hard drive is running out of space and it's messed up and registry doesn't look good. I was given used 20GB and try to install as local(bootable) hard drive(C and want to use old hard drive(13GB) as back-up storage(F I have XP installed now and have a CD for XP and want to clean install on new 20GB. I know to how to hook up and set up master and slave and configure bios etc and install XP with clean installation. What I want to find out is I want to use the program in old hard drive. As far as I know,It must be re-installed onto new hard drive in order to work. But there are so many program and utility I do not have the CDs. When most people upgrages their hard drive,I know they might use harddrive package-come along-utility OR the prgram such as ghost and drive copy or image in order to copy whole drive. But my problem is I want clean installed XP on new hard drive and still want to use the program in the slave-connected old hard drive excluding XP. Is it possible? Only way is re-install the program on new hard drive? Or ghost or other program let me just copy the program and allow it to work under clean-installed XP? HELP~! Thanks in advance. |
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sorry for top posting but think there is a wizard for setting and file
transfer in xp take a look before you do install and might be what you are looking for. Larry "wonderboy" wrote in message om... I think I need you guys help here. My old custom-built computer's hard drive is running out of space and it's messed up and registry doesn't look good. I was given used 20GB and try to install as local(bootable) hard drive(C and want to use old hard drive(13GB) as back-up storage(F I have XP installed now and have a CD for XP and want to clean install on new 20GB. I know to how to hook up and set up master and slave and configure bios etc and install XP with clean installation. What I want to find out is I want to use the program in old hard drive. As far as I know,It must be re-installed onto new hard drive in order to work. But there are so many program and utility I do not have the CDs. When most people upgrages their hard drive,I know they might use harddrive package-come along-utility OR the prgram such as ghost and drive copy or image in order to copy whole drive. But my problem is I want clean installed XP on new hard drive and still want to use the program in the slave-connected old hard drive excluding XP. Is it possible? Only way is re-install the program on new hard drive? Or ghost or other program let me just copy the program and allow it to work under clean-installed XP? HELP~! Thanks in advance. |
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From: "Larry Weak" Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,freeserve.help.wi ndows.misc,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_sup port,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:05 AM Subject: new hard drive + old hard drive sorry for top posting but think there is a wizard for setting and file transfer in xp take a look before you do install and might be what you are looking for. The file and settings transfer wizard will move exactly that -- your files and settings. It will not, however, move your programs. Programs generally have an installer program that is separate from the actual program. That installer creates the files and sets the references needed for that program to work, and copying programs does not generally work without re-installing them. There is some software available, such as PC Relocator that is supposed to move programs, but I've not had good success with that working. I find that a clean OS install with clean installs of all programs is the best way to have a fast, reliable OS for the long run. In the future make sure to hang on to all those install disks and to archive any programs you download from the internet! "wonderboy" wrote in message om... I think I need you guys help here. My old custom-built computer's hard drive is running out of space and it's messed up and registry doesn't look good. I was given used 20GB and try to install as local(bootable) hard drive(C and want to use old hard drive(13GB) as back-up storage(F I have XP installed now and have a CD for XP and want to clean install on new 20GB. I know to how to hook up and set up master and slave and configure bios etc and install XP with clean installation. What I want to find out is I want to use the program in old hard drive. As far as I know,It must be re-installed onto new hard drive in order to work. But there are so many program and utility I do not have the CDs. When most people upgrages their hard drive,I know they might use harddrive package-come along-utility OR the prgram such as ghost and drive copy or image in order to copy whole drive. But my problem is I want clean installed XP on new hard drive and still want to use the program in the slave-connected old hard drive excluding XP. Is it possible? Only way is re-install the program on new hard drive? Or ghost or other program let me just copy the program and allow it to work under clean-installed XP? HELP~! Thanks in advance. |
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"wonderboy" wrote in message om... I think I need you guys help here. My old custom-built computer's hard drive is running out of space and it's messed up and registry doesn't look good. I was given used 20GB and try to install as local(bootable) hard drive(C and want to use old hard drive(13GB) as back-up storage(F I have XP installed now and have a CD for XP and want to clean install on new 20GB. I know to how to hook up and set up master and slave and configure bios etc and install XP with clean installation. What I want to find out is I want to use the program in old hard drive. As far as I know,It must be re-installed onto new hard drive in order to work. But there are so many program and utility I do not have the CDs. When most people upgrages their hard drive,I know they might use harddrive package-come along-utility OR the prgram such as ghost and drive copy or image in order to copy whole drive. But my problem is I want clean installed XP on new hard drive and still want to use the program in the slave-connected old hard drive excluding XP. Is it possible? Only way is re-install the program on new hard drive? Or ghost or other program let me just copy the program and allow it to work under clean-installed XP? HELP~! Thanks in advance. What Jed said is correct, you want to transfer programs, forget it. Here is what you can do, at the risk of sounding like CG, suck it and see. Some programs may still work if they are not to dependant on files loaded by the registry or in the windows system folder, others will not. For those that will not you will have to re-install, kiss them goodbye or spend a lot of time and effort trying to make them work. |
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"wonderboy" wrote in message m... Thank you for reply, guys. Guess I have to give up. I guess I have to re-install program that I have CDs for on new drive. Or export the program's registry entries from the old harddrive OS and import them to the new harddrive OS's registry. Only way to use non-transferable program in old hard drive is set this hard drive as master, I guess Oh, what for? What exactly do you think that will accomplish? Here is what I have now. I (will) have two hard drives and one CD-RW(master) and one DVD-ROM(slave). Each hard drive will have own XP since I will clean-install on new hard drive. So new hard drive will be master and old mess-up hard will be slave. Yup, so? Since I can't use the program in old hard drive, I will have to boot on old hard drive whenever I need to use the program in the old hard drive. Or export the program's registry enties from the old harddrive OS and import them to the new harddrive OS's registry. It will be a big pain to open the case and switch the cable. Uhuh, and what on earth would you want to do that for? Is there any program will allow me to choose which hard drive I want to boot on? Ever heard of a thing that goes under the name of 'BIOS'? What exactly do you think this entry 'BootSequence' in the BIOS setup is all about? Learn how to use your MainBoard Setup program. I can set as new hard drive(master) and CD-RW(slave) old hard drive(master) and DVD-ROM(slave). this set up will make it easy? Make easy what? I am not looking partition since each drive has OS on it. Thanks in advance. |
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What I want to find out is I want to use the program in old hard
drive. As far as I know,It must be re-installed onto new hard drive in order to work. But there are so many program and utility I do not have the CDs. Forget about it. You'll need the installation CDs etc. for the programs. |
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Thank you for reply,guys.
Guess I have to give up. I guess I have to re-install program that I have CDs for on new drive. Only way to use non-transferable program in old hard drive is set this hard drive as master,I guess Here is what I have now. I (will) have two hard drives and one CD-RW(master) and one DVD-ROM(slave). Each hard drive will have own XP since I will clean-install on new hard drive. So new hard drive will be master and old mess-up hard will be slave. Since I can't use the program in old hard drive,I will have to boot on old hard drive whenever I need to use the program in the old hard drive. It will be a big pain to open the case and switch the cable. Is there any program will allow me to choose which hard drive I want to boot on? I can set as new hard drive(master) and CD-RW(slave) old hard drive(master) and DVD-ROM(slave). this set up will make it easy? I am not looking partition since each drive has OS on it. Thanks in advance. |
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"wonderboy" wrote in message m... Thank you for reply,guys. Guess I have to give up. I guess I have to re-install program that I have CDs for on new drive. Only way to use non-transferable program in old hard drive is set this hard drive as master,I guess No it won't make antdifference if you do a clean install, the o/s won't be associated with it. Here is what I have now. I (will) have two hard drives and one CD-RW(master) and one DVD-ROM(slave). Each hard drive will have own XP since I will clean-install on new hard drive. So new hard drive will be master and old mess-up hard will be slave. Since I can't use the program in old hard drive,I will have to boot on old hard drive whenever I need to use the program in the old hard drive. It will be a big pain to open the case and switch the cable. Is there any program will allow me to choose which hard drive I want to boot on? Windows XP will boot from either via the loader and boot.ini, you don't need anything else, just make sure both drives are connected as you intend to keep them when you set XP up. I can set as new hard drive(master) and CD-RW(slave) old hard drive(master) and DVD-ROM(slave). this set up will make it easy? Yes that will be the best layout imo. |
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:46:06 -0000, "Grimly Fiendish"
wrote: Thank you for reply,guys. Guess I have to give up. I guess I have to re-install program that I have CDs for on new drive. Only way to use non-transferable program in old hard drive is set this hard drive as master,I guess No it won't make antdifference if you do a clean install, the o/s won't be associated with it. You said your present installation, though it has problems, is runnable? If so, leave it completely alone and continue to run it when you need the programs on it. You don't need to mess with cable-changing. If you install a new XP on your new primary drive you just need a simple modification of the boot.ini file to allow a multi-boot option. I discover that there ARE programs that claim to extract complete program installations from one computer so they may be installed on another. Does anyone have more information? What are these irreplaceable programs, anyway? Can't you borrow the installation disks the same place you did before? |
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"Laurence Payne" wrote in message ... (Snipped non-relevant portion of posting)... I discover that there ARE programs that claim to extract complete program installations from one computer so they may be installed on another. Does anyone have more information? Laurence: There are programs marketed that claim to transfer programs, configuration settings, etc. from one computer to another, however, based upon my experience with a number of these so-called "data migration" programs I've found them to be virtually useless in transferring Windows applications from one computer running Win98/Me to another running the Windows XP OS. It's a crapshoot at best, and the odds are stacked against you. Yes, they're fine if all you want to do is transfer (copy) data files (for the most part) from one machine to another, but that's about it. In nearly every case where the user wishes to transfer programs and applications to the new computer, he will need the installation media to install those programs on the new machine. And even then he can run into problems when the application was specifically designed for a pre-XP OS and no updates have been issued for XP. While there is a so-called "compatibility mode" in XP, it's far from a certainty that it will work with older programs. Now if the source and destination computers are running the same OS and the user has no problem in transferring the source's OS to the destination computer, then it's a relatively simple matter of using a disk imaging program, e.g., Ghost, to clone the contents of the source computer to the destination one. Art |
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