Old Machine --> New Machine?
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Posted by gecko on September 3, 2008, 6:30 am
Please log in for more thread options Suppose I buy a new machine - complete with new hard drives. I know I can clone the hard drives on my old machine onto the new machine's drives, but I have run into trouble before trying to use a boot drive or copy thereof from an old machine on a different machine. How can I do this more easily? I know I can re-install all the apps and then copy all my data from backup, but is there a faster way? Thanks -GECKO | |||||||||||||
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Posted by GT on September 3, 2008, 6:40 am
Please log in for more thread options Not for free (that I know of). There is software that will transfer things from one machine to another, but you are not just looking at files, but you need registry settings and system DLLs, OCXs etc. If I were you, I would re-install everything. This will give you nice clean installations, rather than pulling over old installations of software along with problems and/or inflated registry keys etc. I think windows has a settings transfer wizard for the basic stuff, but not sure how much it does. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Big_Al on September 3, 2008, 8:04 am
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gecko wrote: > Suppose I buy a new machine - complete with new hard drives.
> I know I can clone the hard drives on my old machine onto the new > machine's drives, but I have run into trouble before trying to use a > boot drive or copy thereof from an old machine on a different machine. > How can I do this more easily? > > I know I can re-install all the apps and then copy all my data from > backup, but is there a faster way? > > Thanks > > -GECKO You can't clone the drive. Or at least it will not be as simple as you think. The motherboards and hardware will be different and the drivers different. You could clone and then do a repair install to fix maybe, I'm not the expert in this area, just passing on what I hear. I normally just reload. If you have a cloning software, you might consider a reload with a little bit of apps install and setup and then clone the new system. It will give you a virgin config to save as a valid system restore that will be 10 times faster to restore than a reload. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on September 3, 2008, 10:21 am
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wrote: >Suppose I buy a new machine - complete with new hard drives.
>I know I can clone the hard drives on my old machine onto the new >machine's drives, but I have run into trouble before trying to use a >boot drive or copy thereof from an old machine on a different machine. >How can I do this more easily? > >I know I can re-install all the apps and then copy all my data from >backup, but is there a faster way? > >Thanks > >-GECKO The basic process is to make the clone drive image onto the new drive with that new drive in the old system. Next boot that and uninstall any hardware specific drivers and apps in add/remove programs. Next change the hard drive controller to a generic Microsoft driver if it was using a chipset spectific driver, and see the linked docs for more hints. http://69.36.166.207/usr_1034/Move_Migrate_Drive_to_Different_Motherboard_System.zip Basically, windows will plug-n-play the hardware changes so long as it can find the boot drive on the new drive controller and finish booting far enough into windows to begin plug-n-playing new hardware. The one thing I'm most unsure about is if the original was PATA and you have a system with a newer SATA controllers, what it'll take to do that. If they work in emulation mode I'd expect it to be ok but otherwise, I don't know. The quickest path may just be to go ahead and dupe the old drive to the new one and try it to see what happens and proceed from there. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by jaster on September 3, 2008, 3:11 pm
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:30:54 +0000, gecko thoughfully wrote: > Suppose I buy a new machine - complete with new hard drives. I know I
> can clone the hard drives on my old machine onto the new machine's > drives, but I have run into trouble before trying to use a boot drive or > copy thereof from an old machine on a different machine. How can I do > this more easily? > > I know I can re-install all the apps and then copy all my data from > backup, but is there a faster way? > > Thanks > > -GECKO True. I think you could network the 2 PCs so data is available to both machines, then you can copy over whatever you or simply share. The problem occurs when you need to execute programs on the old machine on the new machine. Many programs install components to C:\windows and c: \program files so identification would be tricky and reinstallation safer. Another alternative is to install the HD from the old PC into the new PC. It would show up as another partition or drive, like D:\ However, there may still be problems with applications which install to c:\windows or c:\program files. | |||||||||||||
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> I know I can clone the hard drives on my old machine onto the new
> machine's drives, but I have run into trouble before trying to use a
> boot drive or copy thereof from an old machine on a different machine.
> How can I do this more easily?
>
> I know I can re-install all the apps and then copy all my data from
> backup, but is there a faster way?