I installed 2 Windows 2000 in 2 partitions (C: and D and both work
well. There are other partitions (E: and F that show no problem.
But there is another partition (G in NTFS: I wrote there many files
with the first Win2K. When I enter into the second Win2K it finds and
corrects thousands of errors and then it can read only about 50% of the
files and the others are found to be corrupt.
So while in the second Win2K I formatted this partition and restored all
files there. But entering in the first Win2K again it cannot read those
files!
As the first Win2K is about 3 years old and the second one is quite new
I imagine that the first one has been corrupted somehow.
I want now to transfer all links and programs to the second OS and then
delete the first one.
My problem is now: which is the fastest way to do this?
Can I simply copy the registry to the second OS?
Which files should I transfer?
Or must I painfully reinstall every program (over 100!) ?
Or do you have a better solution?
Thanks
Horst

You might want to run the hd manu checking utility.
There are apps that claim to be able to move apps to another win
installation, how successfully I dont know.
Transfering the reigistry is unlikely to help, as assuming it would actually
boot, the references will all point to the wrong disk

If you were to be using a virtual installation enviroment or even removable
disks for win I could understand but running the same o/s on two partitions
sounds like a real dogs dinner.

"horst engel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:458053ef$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I installed 2 Windows 2000 in 2 partitions (C: and D and both work
> well. There are other partitions (E: and F that show no problem.
> But there is another partition (G in NTFS: I wrote there many files
> with the first Win2K. When I enter into the second Win2K it finds and
> corrects thousands of errors and then it can read only about 50% of the
> files and the others are found to be corrupt.
> So while in the second Win2K I formatted this partition and restored all
> files there. But entering in the first Win2K again it cannot read those
> files!
> As the first Win2K is about 3 years old and the second one is quite new
> I imagine that the first one has been corrupted somehow.
> I want now to transfer all links and programs to the second OS and then
> delete the first one.
> My problem is now: which is the fastest way to do this?
> Can I simply copy the registry to the second OS?
> Which files should I transfer?
> Or must I painfully reinstall every program (over 100!) ?
> Or do you have a better solution?
> Thanks
> Horst

What's the size of the disk? Sounds like a large disk problem. Windows
in C: can access large disks, while Windows in D: cannot.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:26:38 +0100, horst engel
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I installed 2 Windows 2000 in 2 partitions (C: and D and both work
>well. There are other partitions (E: and F that show no problem.
>But there is another partition (G in NTFS: I wrote there many files
>with the first Win2K. When I enter into the second Win2K it finds and
>corrects thousands of errors and then it can read only about 50% of the
>files and the others are found to be corrupt.
>So while in the second Win2K I formatted this partition and restored all
>files there. But entering in the first Win2K again it cannot read those
>files!
>As the first Win2K is about 3 years old and the second one is quite new
>I imagine that the first one has been corrupted somehow.
>I want now to transfer all links and programs to the second OS and then
>delete the first one.
>My problem is now: which is the fastest way to do this?
>Can I simply copy the registry to the second OS?
>Which files should I transfer?
>Or must I painfully reinstall every program (over 100!) ?
>Or do you have a better solution?
>Thanks
>Horst