Moving Windows 7 From 32-bit To 64-bit Hardware?
Aug 11, 2011
I'm upgrading my system (replacing everything but the Antec 900 chassis and a SATA secondary hard drive) from an old P4?800VM with a Pentium 4 processor to an ASUS P8Z68 with an i7-2600k processor. The old system ran 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate and I plan to do a clean 64-bit install and transfer the license. My question is whether there is any information I need to pull off of the older system before I shut it down in order to make activating the new OS easier.
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Apr 30, 2012
Is it possible, and if so how do I go about it/is it something a relative novice could undertake without too much of a problem..?
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Apr 11, 2011
I'm buying a SSD and would like to put my OS on the drive. However is this possible? And how I only put the OS on the SSD and not all my files, games, etc.?
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Aug 13, 2012
I am making a now computer and am I able to movie it to my new computer without removing from my old one?
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Sep 18, 2011
I had to do a reinstall of a Win 7 32bit pro OS for a user, but before I did, I moved her data to my machine, did the reinstall on her and then moved her data to her profile.
I logged in as her, and verified that her "my docs" and favorites were there and that I can access them. However, all of the data icons are transparent (folders on her desktop and the actual data in her mydocs).
Most of it is pictures and movies and I can access them, but everything is clear. I did notice that even the favorites are transparent and they do not show in the browser (IE) even though the link is in fact in the Favorites directory in her profile.
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Aug 14, 2011
I moved Windows 7 from a partition on a physical hard drive to a new SSD. It was pretty easy, and everything works great except the hibernate function. The screen goes blank for about two seconds and then comes back on. Nothing power-related appears in the Event Viewer. The PC restarts, shuts down, and even sleeps with no trouble. I ran powercfg -h off and then powercfg -h on to delete and recreate the hibernation file,no offense, but no lectures about how a "clean" reinstall is required or even recommended when moving to an SSD. That's just not true. Similar to upgrading to a larger physical hard drive, all you do is copy the partition to the new drive and continue on your way.
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Nov 4, 2012
I have bought a new Windows 7 pc and put my old XP pc out to grass, I have removed the old Xp Hdd and mounted it into a usb Caddy. What I want to do is either use this as a duel boot Windows 7/xp or transfer all my xp data over onto my new pc.
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Sep 28, 2010
My Dell Optiplex 740 (AMD) is dying, and my company's IT has given me a Optiplex 745 (Intel) as a replacement.I'm a very lazy person , so naturally, I tried moving the drive with Windows 7 Enterprise x64 to the new machine.It didn't work: * Shortly after boot up, it will restart itself and go into repair mode * It will not be able to repair itself * Starting in Safe Mode also failedAs far as I know, the two PCs are completely different, except the graphic card and hard drives are the same.Is there anyway to "repair" this so it will work on the new machine? I'm avoiding reinstall since I really want to preserve my settings.
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Mar 19, 2011
Right now I've got a dual boot with xp and windows 7 on an IDE disk. I want to clone my windows 7 installation to a brand new, empty (Sata) disk. If I restart the system after the cloning, will the SATA disk have a boot record? What boot options will I have? 2 former ones and a messed up 3rd one?
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Apr 17, 2011
I'm wanting to move my copy of Windows 7 OEM Ultimate x64 to a new drive, with all the programs and that without reinstalling. I'm wanting to move it from my WD Black SATA2 drive to a SATA3 drive, which will be done via a PCIe Card. If this isn't possible to do, I'm fine using a fast SATA 2 drive.
I'm wondering if copying all the required folders Windows needs, putting them on a same-sized drive, unplugging the WD Black and doing a boot with that in the same SATA port.
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Nov 24, 2011
My system CPU fan remains at high speed and the system won't enter BIOS. I got a duplicate HP system and tried to move my Windows 7 HD from the older system to the new one without any luck. Apparantly Windows 7 is protected with some sort of hardware hash. I can't use repair or restore.How can I get my Windows 7 HD to work in this new system? Everything is legit regarding my software keys, etc.
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May 10, 2012
So I spent a lot of time getting my windows 7 install the way I want. I plan on upgrading to a new lenovo w530 when they are released relatively soon. I'm not sure the best way to move my windows installation EXACTLY like it is to the new machine. I will be transferring the physical SSD itself to the new machine so imaging it to a new drive i not a step I need to take.
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May 28, 2010
is it possible to move my Windows 7 system HDD from old PC (which is dying) to new PC, which has better processor, RAM etc?I am thinking that if I uninstalled all hardware before shutting down the system, then putting the drive into new PC it might work.
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Apr 30, 2011
need an exact answer on how to move folders in Windows 7
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Aug 24, 2011
I have a 320gb (255 free) drive and just purchased a 120gb SSD. I have external SATA -> USB bays and extra computers that can do the transferring. My windows partition is currently only 45gb. The current 320gb drive has 4 partitions 2 of which are 10g+ recovery partitions I no longer want. (and can use the space now that I am on a small drive). Windows 7 built in backup will only image the exact partition sizes, meaning if I was going to a bigger drive that's fine I could resize after. but because im going to a smaller drive i cant even write the image to it. Acronis this got me very close, it cloned the drive (including recovery partitions, but i planned on removed those afterwards) but failed to boot, I ran windows recovery to try and rebuild the boot sector but it wasn't able to. How can I keep everything but switch drives? The best thing I can think of now (and very sad) is to install a fresh copy of windows 7 than erase the install partition and copy over the install partition from the 320gb drive, and I have a strong suspicion this wont go smoothly.
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Feb 24, 2012
I have a lot of programs loaded on my older HP Media center with XP I want to move to new computer with windows 7, How can I move my applications over without havin to reload all the disks. I have many programs on the old system
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Aug 28, 2012
I need to move files to my E drive to create room nfor program upgrades,can this be done
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Oct 22, 2011
I have Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9 on my computer. How to save and move my Favorites to another computer?
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Nov 28, 2012
I looked at my specific manufacturers toolbox to see details about the drive and I noticed that it has already accumulated over 5 billion writes so far. This thing is a little over a week old. So then I'm looking at my event logs and I'm thinking that every single one of these entries is a small write here and there and EVERYWHERE and it just never stops!! Then I tried to move the logs to my D: drive by modifying the settings within Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) and the major ones did move there, but then there are over a hundred different other log categories under windows and there were no group policy settings for those. I was inspired to start this thread by another thread regarding clearing all those log files with a simple bat file. That conversation is here http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19411_102-378338/delete-all-event-logs-at-once-in-windows-7/ They came up with a .bat file that does clean them all out with one swoop. I am not good with those things and I was hoping that modifying something small would enable those certain files ending in .evtx to be moved to a new location and registered within Windows. Otherwise it's a huge amount of time going through each one to change the location from within the Event Viewer.
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Jan 17, 2012
I currently have a WD 120GB drive that i installed my win 7 on, but this drive is old and very slow.I have a brand new 1.5 TB drive and i was wondering if there is an easy way to move the win 7 installation to that new drive without much hassle.
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Jan 23, 2013
okay so I am at work and whenever I want to maximize a window to fill the left side of the monitor, it for some reason maximizes and centers in between both the monitors. Does anyone know how to fix this? I know that probably didn't make much sense, but I attached a picture to show what I am talking about. I was trying to maximize this window by dragging clicking it at the top and dragging it all the way to the top to maximize, but it centers in the middle?
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Jan 25, 2011
No answer was given there, nor in many other forums. Some "experts" even went on to claim it was not even possible. Well, ignore the "experts" and "gurus" that say otherwise, it is possible, and it's easy.FYI: Here is what I did:
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Feb 14, 2011
I would like to move windows 7 and some of my games and apps to my new faster HDD, how would i go about doing this correctly? (so it is the boot drive and games run from the new drive)
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Nov 13, 2011
My Desktop ICONS keep moving around. Not every time I log on, just enough to be a PITA.
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Apr 23, 2012
I have Windows 7, 64 Bit. It is on HDD. In May I will buy 128 gig SSD. How can I move Windows 7 to SSD as well as some other programs effectively? What is the procedure? Also if I want to leave desktop, My Documents, and all other folders on my hard drive, will it be possible. So basically what I am asking is, what will be moved with Windows. Also, I tried twice to backup Windows 7 image, and it failed both times, while I had more than enough space on my external drive.
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Jul 4, 2012
Recently, my ancient desktop died on me. I had some stuff stored on the main C drive (40 GB) and some on an external 1 TB drive. I put the 40 GB HD in the external module to upload it to a laptop with a 360 GB HD. I would then like to transfer that 40 GB to the 1 TB drive. When I plug in the external with the 40 GB, it appears that the Windows 7 machine does not read it or pick it up. It recognizes it as an external device, but not as a drive.
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May 31, 2011
I just installed Windows 7 Starter on my laptop (I had Windows Vista) and I am wondering how I cam move programs from the Windows.old folder to the actual laptop? I know I can move personal files, but I don't know how to move the actual programs.
If I can't then, I have Windows Office 2007 installed on, so when I go to install Windows Office again will I be able to use the same serial key as before or will I have to get a new serial key?
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Jul 2, 2012
I have a video file that is 5+GB. Windows is telling me it can't move it because it is too large, even though there is ample space in the directory I'm moving it too
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Sep 4, 2010
I have an older PC with Windows 7 and XP dual boot on a 640GB HD. Recently built a new quad core PC and installed Windows 7 on a 60GB SSD. There is also a new 640GB HD for applications and data.
Spent quite a bit of time searching for the best method of transferring the applications and data setting from the old PC with single HD to the new PC's with SSD and HD. PCMove and True Image are mentioned as options but not sure how they can handle 2 destination drives. I dread the thought of adding each application one by one.
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Sep 25, 2012
I've been trying to migrate Windows 7 to a new 250G Seagate Hybrid SSD.I used Clonezilla to clone the three parititions (the main C: drive with Windows, the 100M hinden drive and the recovery drive - don't know if this is HP specific?). The cloning worked fine. I then disconnect the original HDD and restarted. When the PC boots from the new hybrid drive - it just has the flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the screen? I've tried running the Windows repair disk several times - it did some work but to no effect. It did though recognise the partition where Windows was and labled it C:.Every time I boot from the disk it just gives me the flashing cursor in the top corner of the screen.
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Jun 20, 2010
Last night we purchased a new pc with Win 7 loaded. We have an old and dying XP. It has been backed up using the Win backup facility to an external hard drive (assesories/system/backup). I imagine that restoring the data files will not be a big problem, but: She does not have all the original "program" CD's.It is a home pc and NOT networked. I read that a parallel cable could be attached between the two pc's and then programs "transferred" in this manner.Is there another way
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