Hi...need to see if i can get some help on this and hopefully it makes
sense, I posted in another forum already but that solution didnt work for
me......

1. Old computer has 1 drive with 1 account on it
2. New computer 3 seperate drives
3. On a home network
4. Win XP w/ sp3 on both

I'm trying to set up the old account on a new computer, using a second drive
as destination . My intent is to move everything, all files, settings,
passwords. outlook pst...etc.

The new computer has an admin account on C:\ and needs to have another
account on D:\

Can I clone computer 1 and restore on computer 2? File and transfer wizard
doesnt help me much. Is dual booting an option? Or , does anyone have
another solution?

Ingoloid wrote:
> Hi...need to see if i can get some help on this and hopefully it
> makes sense, I posted in another forum already but that solution
> didnt work for me......
>
> 1. Old computer has 1 drive with 1 account on it
> 2. New computer 3 seperate drives
> 3. On a home network
> 4. Win XP w/ sp3 on both
>
> I'm trying to set up the old account on a new computer, using a
> second drive as destination . My intent is to move everything, all
> files, settings, passwords. outlook pst...etc.
>
> The new computer has an admin account on C:\ and needs to have
> another account on D:\
>
> Can I clone computer 1 and restore on computer 2? File and
> transfer wizard doesnt help me much. Is dual booting an option? Or
> , does anyone have another solution?

Why doesn't the file and transfer wizard help you?

If what you are trying to do is move an *account* - that is the way to do
it. If you are trying to move the applications, that doesn't help you.

Make a virtual machine out of the old computer and put it on the new
computer - then you have the old computer for all times as a virtual machine
you can load at will.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I tried using transfer wiz, but it changed my admin account to the old
account and i ended up restoring. My goal is to keep my existing admin
account and create a second account with the old computer info, but I'd like
to have all those files on a second drive, not on my admin drive (if that
makes sense?)


"Shenan Stanley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ingoloid wrote:
>> Hi...need to see if i can get some help on this and hopefully it
>> makes sense, I posted in another forum already but that solution
>> didnt work for me......
>>
>> 1. Old computer has 1 drive with 1 account on it
>> 2. New computer 3 seperate drives
>> 3. On a home network
>> 4. Win XP w/ sp3 on both
>>
>> I'm trying to set up the old account on a new computer, using a
>> second drive as destination . My intent is to move everything, all
>> files, settings, passwords. outlook pst...etc.
>>
>> The new computer has an admin account on C:\ and needs to have
>> another account on D:\
>>
>> Can I clone computer 1 and restore on computer 2? File and
>> transfer wizard doesnt help me much. Is dual booting an option? Or
>> , does anyone have another solution?
>
> Why doesn't the file and transfer wizard help you?
>
> If what you are trying to do is move an *account* - that is the way to do
> it. If you are trying to move the applications, that doesn't help you.
>
> Make a virtual machine out of the old computer and put it on the new
> computer - then you have the old computer for all times as a virtual
> machine you can load at will.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

Ingoloid wrote:
> I tried using transfer wiz, but it changed my admin account to the
> old account and i ended up restoring. My goal is to keep my
> existing admin account and create a second account with the old
> computer info, but I'd like to have all those files on a second
> drive, not on my admin drive (if that makes sense?)

The Files and Transfer wizard in Windows XP works like this...

You have an account on an old machine you want to move to a new machine (at
least the settings and the personally owned files) - so you run the F.A.S.T.
wizard and do it as the "Old Computer" to export the information.

You *create* an account (manually - you do it - F.A.S.T. is not going to do
this for you) and log ionto it on the new machine. You then use the
F.A.S.T. wizard (as the new machine) to import the files and settings you
exported above.

Does that make sense?

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

maybe I'm missing something. I am logged into a blank account, FAST goes
through the motions, but nothng happened. I will delete the new account,
and start over. will let ya know how it went, thanks sofar.


"Shenan Stanley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ingoloid wrote:
>> I tried using transfer wiz, but it changed my admin account to the
>> old account and i ended up restoring. My goal is to keep my
>> existing admin account and create a second account with the old
>> computer info, but I'd like to have all those files on a second
>> drive, not on my admin drive (if that makes sense?)
>
> The Files and Transfer wizard in Windows XP works like this...
>
> You have an account on an old machine you want to move to a new machine
> (at least the settings and the personally owned files) - so you run the
> F.A.S.T. wizard and do it as the "Old Computer" to export the information.
>
> You *create* an account (manually - you do it - F.A.S.T. is not going to
> do this for you) and log ionto it on the new machine. You then use the
> F.A.S.T. wizard (as the new machine) to import the files and settings you
> exported above.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

Hi again....

OK..got it to do what it's supposed to do. Thanks for the help. If I had
additional questions about this topic, would I continue here, or start a new
thread?