Transfer Stuff

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)

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


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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.