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| 789777 | 2009-07-07 23:01:00 | And, what would be the best/easiest way of me moving everything over from one system to the other? Bearing in mind I'll buy the new system there but not take my old one with me. Would the best way be - to copy all data onto an external drive, and take that with me, plus all the original installation discs I'll need to reinstall programs? Is there any better way? |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 789778 | 2009-07-08 03:41:00 | You could clone it over. Kinda like taking a "picture" of the hard drive then restoring it on another. Options could be the Seagate/Acronis Bootable CD(free) or Macrium reflect. Self Image, or DriveImageXML Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 789779 | 2009-07-08 04:00:00 | I thought about that, but as I would be moving it to a whole new system with new hardware, would that still work? | Chikara (5139) | ||
| 789780 | 2009-07-08 04:18:00 | I thought about that, but as I would be moving it to a whole new system with new hardware, would that still work? With Vista I've had about a 90% success rate, much better than XP, so 7 might be even better |
Blam (54) | ||
| 789781 | 2009-07-08 06:43:00 | meh, you will have to uninstall all vendor specific software and drivers from within device manager 1st, dont reboot, change all drivers to generic, so when the image is copied and dumped on the new drive, windows will search and prompt for drivers...however if the new device uses SATA, you may have issues.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 789782 | 2009-07-08 08:42:00 | meh, you will have to uninstall all vendor specific software and drivers from within device manager 1st, dont reboot, change all drivers to generic, so when the image is copied and dumped on the new drive, windows will search and prompt for drivers...however if the new device uses SATA, you may have issues.... Yeah, sounds a bit too complicated and prone to not working, I think I might just have to copy my data across to an external, and then reinstall all the apps on the new PC and then copy the data onto it. |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 789783 | 2009-07-08 22:59:00 | Yeah, sounds a bit too complicated and prone to not working, I think I might just have to copy my data across to an external, and then reinstall all the apps on the new PC and then copy the data onto it. What have you got to lose by trying a clone job? I have had several clone jobs go well, including with XP. Do what Solmiester says and give it a go. But mine also worked without going to generic drivers. |
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