Running Programs From A Second Internal Hard Drive - Safe Way
Oct 11, 2007
I own a Dell GX270 (the one with the bad Motherboards) and would like to take the Hard Drive from this bad bad machine and install it on my other (Similar, but actually working) Dell (OPTIPLEX 160) as a Second Hard Drive. The Hard Drive from the defective PC obviously has all my valuable programs on it, some of which antiques that I love using for work. Both computers have identical Operating systems (XP-Pro)
My questions are:
Will I be able to run programs directly from the old (now second) Hard Drive? If not, what is the safest way to merge the individual program's registry entries with the registry on the drive which actually operates the machine
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