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Thread ID: 38501	2003-10-09 04:52:00	Copying Files from old OS to New OS	rocketeer (4703)	Press F1

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181626	2003-10-09 04:52:00	We have recently purchased a 2nd hand PC that has a copy of Win 2K onboard as OS. It has been bought to replace a PC that has WIN98 as it's OS. Is there an easy way to transfer/copy the existing HD info off the old PC without transferring the WIN98 OS on to the new machine? Can powerquest or Ghost handle that type of transfer?	rocketeer (4703)
181627	2003-10-09 04:59:00	You could burn the file to a CD and transfer that way. Or install the old HDD in the new machine as a slave and transfer files that way to your HDD. Depends how much you really want to transfer for a method to use.	Archibald (180)
181628	2003-10-09 05:08:00	Welcome to PF1 rocketeer It is not hard to transfer data between old and new computers, but first you need to make clear what you want to transfer. If it is just your data files, then connecting your old HDD into the new computer as a slave (we can get to the details of how to do that later) will let you drag and drop your wanted files to the new computer's HDD using Explorer. If you want to transfer your Program files, then you will probably have to dump the whole lot including the OS onto the new computer then reinstall W2000 over the top of W98 as there is no practical way to transfer programs separately from the OS package. There are other ways to transfer data files using interconnect cables between the two computers but physically installing the HDD is easiest, simplest and fastest. How many files and of what type do you want to transfer? Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
181629	2003-10-09 18:57:00	Hi there Yes it's a workstation upgrade but the machine we bought @ auction has win2k installed with license but no disc. So the re-install isn't going to work. What if we saved the program files to the network, hooked up the win2k pc to the network and copied everything back? I was just looking at a quick answer without doing a re-install of all the program files.	rocketeer (4703)
181630	2003-10-09 19:17:00	You will have to install the programs, as they need to write key data into the registry as they install. Copying will not work on most programs.	godfather (25)
181631	2003-10-10 00:14:00	There's a big difference in how Win98 and Win2k work, and it all depends on how the program is to be installed, also depends how old the program is, as it may not be able to run on Win2k because of the different calls the program makes. Usually they have a win32 and a winnt program, sometimes it's just win32 which is compatible with most OS but it's not efficiently running on the system, basically that's lazy programming or because MS release too many OS in short periods of time, which means developers are never on holiday.	Kame (312)
181632	2003-10-10 01:33:00	There is/was a program called Uninstaller that could transfer programs, and I used the original version successfully on W3.1 computers. A 32 bit version was written for W95 and shortly after the rights were sold to another company. I bought this version as well and it could successfully transfer programs between W95 computers complete with registry entries and the whole 9 yards. I transferred Word from a desktop to a laptop using this program and it worked perfectly. I don't know if it is still in production but somehow I doubt it. Google still finds reference to it though. IMHO the best idea is to load your programs manually. However, since you don't have the W2K program Disk (sounds like the previous owner kept it so your copy is probably not quite legit) I would create an Ghost image of the present OS installation and set that aside somewhere safely in case you need to reinstall the OS at some stage. Don't forget to delete all temp files including temporay internet files, run scandisk, then defrag before creating your Ghost image so that you get a clean copy of minimum size. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
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