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I have an ol school PC for about 13yrs with a Win95 on it, didn't need
any new untill now. I got some old programs in there which does not accept any of these new OS, the earliest they can go is Win98. 'I got that installed'. Now the question comes. How do I copy everything from the old PC to the 'New one' without leaving anything behind? I mean everything. Most of them are my work related programs, U know I got bring bacon home at the end of the day. I got a bigger drive now, so I need to transfer the whole Enchilada. Help me out here. |
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... I have an ol school PC for about 13yrs with a Win95 on it, didn't need any new untill now. I got some old programs in there which does not accept any of these new OS, the earliest they can go is Win98. 'I got that installed'. Now the question comes. How do I copy everything from the old PC to the 'New one' without leaving anything behind? I mean everything. Most of them are my work related programs, U know I got bring bacon home at the end of the day. I got a bigger drive now, so I need to transfer the whole Enchilada. Help me out here. The simplest method is to put the Win95 HDD into the Win98 PC and copy everything over. Plan beforehand whether you need to rejumper the Win95 HDD (formerly probably Master, now probably Slave.) The Win95 HDD will probably appear as Windows drive D (since it has a Primary DOS partition, which Windows recognizes after identifying the Win98 Primary DOS partition as drive C.) Repost here with results. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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You can copy data (documents, photos, and so forth) simply by copying to floppies if
they are small, or by slaving the old hard drive into the newer machine, as Don suggested. However, programs are another story. If the programs were "installed" using any kind of installer, they likely have numerous Registry entries in the old system, and you cannot just copy the program files and have them work.You have to use the installer for each program to install it on the new system. Only simple programs that do not need to be installed can be copied and used as is. Even those programs may have supporting .dll files that are stored in other folders than the program's folder (such as the Windows and Windows\System folders), as well as .ini files that may be in the Windows folder. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.net/ http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm wrote in message ... I have an ol school PC for about 13yrs with a Win95 on it, didn't need any new untill now. I got some old programs in there which does not accept any of these new OS, the earliest they can go is Win98. 'I got that installed'. Now the question comes. How do I copy everything from the old PC to the 'New one' without leaving anything behind? I mean everything. Most of them are my work related programs, U know I got bring bacon home at the end of the day. I got a bigger drive now, so I need to transfer the whole Enchilada. Help me out here. |
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