My comp has died and I am rebuilding a new one, I was curious if there are any major issues of transferring the old hd with the os to the new comp with the exception of changing out the drivers? I don't want to install XP all over again, add all the updates and then install all my programs and games.
View 1 RepliesJust about to take delivery of new super dooper desktop with XP pro already installed.I will immediately network to my oldish, also XP Pro machine, and of course would love to simply copy all the junk on my boot drive without reinstalling loads and loads of software, finding the keys and passwords (all legit) and upgrading updates and indeed updates to updates! When I only had a 12gb boot drive before and now will have much more than 160gb available, transferring a bit of redundancy, (tho' I know not ideal), would be worth the days of headaches and thumb twiddling.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAn XP home edition CD came with my computer. I know use a different OS, but a friend of mine is using *groan* windows 98 SE and is having lots of problem.I want to give him my CD but don't want microsoft breathing down his neck, asking him where it came from, and such. What would I need to do prior to giving him the CD and installing it on his computer to prevent the above from happening?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI installed XP Pro on an old machine for my in-laws (about a year ago). I have now purchased them a new computer, but it came w/ XP Home. I would like to upgrade the new machine from Home to Pro. I will be removing XP Pro from the old machine & reformatting the hard drive. The MS site indicates this is possible, but doesn't mention anything about licensing restrictions or activation. I tried to find the licensing agreement to see what it said about transfer a license to another computer but couldn't find it. I'm also curious how the activation process will go... Will I be able to just do the online activation or will I need to do the phone activation since I'm transferring a license.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi recently installed WIndows XP on a very very small hard drive (2 gb) and i have one used for data as slave that is 80gb. The reason i didn't install xp on the big one was becuase i already had a lot of important data on there that i couldn't lose, and i didn't want to risk it. But now i'm running into issues of space on the small hard drive and i need a way to transfer XP to the larger hard drive without risking loss of all my data.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy computer came pre-installed with windows xp, so I didnt recieve a disk with xp on it. I am buying a new hard drive and want to install xp on it. Is there anyway to transfer xp from my old hard drive to my new one without buying a new copy of xp, and if there is, will I still be able to connect to windows update?
View 6 Replies View RelatedBought a new barebones PC and want to transfer my old hard disk with XP pro on it to the new machine.Back in the good old / bad old days of Win98 etc, it was easy to do this as Windows saw IDE as IDE and made no other requests to the system to fine tune, AFAIR.Now though if I transfer the drive I get a reboot, safe mode does the same.I can furnish more info from the boot log if required later but does anyone have a sure fire way of getting the GUI up and running so that it can start updating drivers etc.I'm also transferring the cdrom, dvdrw and most importantly the AGP graphics card so it's not an issue with that
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an old Hard drive with Windows XP. It came from a HP pavilion
1. Can I install it into a older Gateway or a eMachine.
2. I am the original owner and I would like to keep XP but in another machine it this possible and will I have any problems from Microsoft's "Genuine Check"
A friend of mine has recently bought a new computer with Windows XP Home. Her old computer is a Window 98. She wants to transfer some files from her old one to the new one. I know that the Windows XP has a Files and Settings Transfer Wizard, but though I've done a search for that on the Microsoft site, I've not found any real information about the process. It does mention how to use floppies or other removable storage, but can this be done with USB cable, or something? If so, how would I hook it up? Will I see an option to choose to use a USB cable for the transfer in the Wizard? From the information I found, it does not even mention using a USB, but I find it hard to believe that one could NOT.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI recently bought a new Dell XPS and want to transfer some files from my old computer but don't want everything. One computer (Gateway) uses Windows XP Home and the other (Dell) uses Windows XP Media. Is there a way to do this without having to pay someone?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHere's a toughie to crack
2 hard drives, both sata, 120 GB Seagate and 250 GB Maxtor
hooked up to a Asus P4P800SE board with p4 2.53 ghz cpu and 1024 mb of DDR333 ram Windows XP Pro SP2
now.... on a fresh windows install when i copy a file from one drive to the other it goes fast (700 meg file in under 30 seconds)... then I install all my basic software (office, winamp, visual studio, nod32, device drivers for manufacturers website) and following that eventually my performance drops through the floor... it takes like 7 minutes to copy the above mentioned 700 meg file and while at it the CPU usage is high. Process explorer (sysinternals) says that most of that cpu power is taken up by hardware interrupts and I cant do much else when its copying. If i boot with WinPE those files transfer good again... 30 seconds for 700 megs.
SO this is a software problem and what i've done already is
1. disabled my startups
2. double checked that my drives are DMA enabled
3. switched back to standard IDE drivers for the controller (made no difference so i reinstalled the Intel chipset drivers again)
4. defragged the drive
and i'm out of ideas on what else I could try... if anyone has any ideas i'd be greatful. there is no viri/spyware on this machine. its been scanned left right and center
is it generally possible to transfer the files of a program installed on one system to another (i.e. I don't the install software to hand and am hoping perhaps a simple transfer of files will have positive results). I know my way around windows but not the more technical aspects of software.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Fat32 and as noted in a previous post I am building a new computer. I have copied some files on to cds. What I would like to know (if someone has done this) is that can these files be transfered to the new build as I plan on going NTFS. Will they convert from fat32 to NTFS when copied from the disc or even work at all? Or just out of luck and have to start all over?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have transferred a Hard Drive into another computer and thought I had to re-install Windows (XP Home) - this I did.In so doing I created another Folder - Windows2 so as not to overwrite anything. I have a Windows folder as well.I also still have a Windows98 Folder on this drive.I cannot access the latest e-mails in the new configuration - or anything else for that matter and know that I am going to have to reinstall all programs.How and where do I find those missing e-mails, or can I uninstall this new version and revert to the old one?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI am new to this site and I come here today to ask a question, perhaps someone here will be able to offer a bit of advice.I have a toshiba laptop, running xp pro sp2, 80GB hard drive.Hard drive inoperable due to bad sectors. My hard drive was partitioned into several sections with the C: section containing the os and the D: section containing my data. I could not boot my system so I tried reinstalling os on C: section again, it required a format. I formatted the C: section and then attempted to reinstall os, no luck!Using a third party diagnostic CD I see that my data on the D: partition is still available and intact. The diagnostic disk creates a makeshift os which allows for very limited manipulation of information on hard drive. Since I can not install os onto bad hard drive section C how can I transfer data from the section D: partition to either a new hard drive or to a storage medium?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm having a little problem with my USB ports. I know they are USB 2.0 but are recognized as 1.0. Everytime I plug something in, it says "this device can run faster if connected to a 2.0 port" or something like that. Is there anyway to fix this, cause im transferring data very slowly and its very annoying. I tried to update the driver but it said there is no better or newer driver available.
View 11 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how I can transfer my files from my desktop computer to my laptop without having to take the long way around by making a million CDs? My desktop seems to be on its last leg with all the error messages and since it won't let me download any upgrades without the oriignal disc, which I cannot find, it has not been been updated in a while. So, I want to move everything over to my laptop.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm quite new to computers so this may seem like a silly question, but I thought I'd ask anyway...I'm due to buy a new computer, but I have many MP3 music/video files on my old one and want to transfer them to the new one. The thing is I don't want to do it my connecting the two PC's ( with a wire/cabel etc.), so I was wondering if there's any other way of doing it?? Could I use a disc for instance (floppy disc??)
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am using XP Pro with 1 Gig Ram and plenty of hard disk space (500 Gig).I am having difficulty saving videos from my Sony DCR-TRV480 NTSC video camera.I used to be able to with no issues however, I've recently reinstalled my operating system and since then it appears that the video is transferring and after I try, finishing this error occurs:.avi could not be imported. The selected file is not valid or is corrupted.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm sure this has been covered many times, but I'm new to this NG and I just got a new computer with XP on it. The thought of transferring data from my old Personal Computer with SE to XP seems daunting. I thought I could hook up my old HD with a USB 2 external enclosure and transfer data that way. Would that work?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have tried using my Upgrade Disk to install it on my new disk, but it didn't work right. It added a menu during start up to include a second Operating System choice but it wouldn't load. I removed it from my new drive in order to start over, but now that stupid menu choice is still there.First, how do I remove that? Second, how do I go about Transferring my Operating system to my new drive without buying a New Operating System?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI wanted to transfer all my files from one box to another, so I rammed in the gateway hard drive, copied all files in the root of the drive, and pasted it into a folder on my New desktop.When the file transfer finished, the folder (on the New desktop) disappeared... Funny. So, I checked the hidden files in explorer. Not there...Well, I used the command prompt. Not there either. After a while, I forgot about it, and just recently got a new defrag program (SmartDefrag).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to transfer the local settings (bookmarks, computer display, saved email folders) to my new hard drive. Which folders do I need to transfer over to recreate the look and have access to all my stored messages/folders in Outlook Express?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to transfer my "favorites" from my old computer (windows 98) to my new one with windows XP. When I copy the favorites onto the floppy I can see that they are all there. BUT, when I put that floppy into my new computer it changes the favorites contents to those on the new computer. For instance: I had probably 100 sites to copy and my new computer favorites only has about 10 sites. Now those 10 sites are on the floppy and not the 100 I placed there.....I'm confused.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a usb 2.0 Vantec NexStar 3 external hard drive enclosure, it is packed with a Western Digital 80gig hard drive. After about 10 minutes of continuous use it will go unreconized by my computer and i have to restart the external drive in order for my computer to see it again. Is this a hardware failure in the enclosure or is it my computer? Now, if there is on and off use (like listening to mp3's or videos) it will go a lot longer time before it quits on me.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am preparing a disk for a Windows Recovery. Let's assume you use a Rescue boot disk after a disk crash. Which basic drivers load on a Windows Install or boot disk? I know it allows the CD Drive and a floppy drive. Does it also allow a USB drive, or particular USB ports (front, back)?
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I did MS Outlook 2003 full backup to an external hard drive just before my computer died and I want to transfer my e-mail files from the external hard drive to my laptop circa 2006.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there was a way to transfer the Program Files folder to the second disk withouth messing up the start path of those programs, and still be able to access them in the Start menu.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust went from dial up to cable broadband on my stationary Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop. Problem, had to sacrafice my only USB port for the connection, this was the port my printer was pluged into, I need my printer but there's no where to plug it in,my laptop has only one USB port & now it's occupied by the cable modem. Is it possable to hook the modem to another port, some of the other ports are, modem connector(telephone),network connector(telephone style jack),S-video TV-out connector(7 pin jack)& last a PC Card slot.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am after help in that i would like to take hard drive, volume 27g from one laptop win xp pro, and place on another laptop 80g win xp home.I do have memory flash but only 256mb.I also think i will need to look at partioning drives do hope i get a reply/plural great support
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