Re: Transfer everything BUT THE OS to another hard drive
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:56:01 -0600
Buolpo wrote:
I recently added a 40GB hard drive to my XP SP3 system. How do I
transfer everything except the OS to the bigger drive? I want to
keep XP on the smaller (original) hard drive all by itself and move
everything else to the bigger (new) drive. Surely, there is a way
that isn't uninstall all the programs and such and reinstall to the
new drive. Thanks in advance if any of you kind souls can help me
out.
No. You pretty much got it.
The only 100% successful/sure way to get your files/folders/applications
form one computer to another is to cleanly install the applications from
their original installation media with their original serial numbers/product
keys and then try and use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to get some
of the files/settings over (My Documents, Desktop, etc will come along,
Outlook settings and some other program settings will not, etc...)
Anything else is a kludge and has a higher percentage chance of failing than
working simply because of the 100's/1000's of variables involved.
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