Need to transfer software from old hard drive (now external) to ne

[Guest]

My old PC went bang- power and motherboard- bought new base unit and a sleeve
to convert my old hard drive into an external one.
I really dont want to install all the programmes I use on my new PC when
they are there on the old hd, how can I either get them to run off there (
which would be preferable) or move them to my new PC so they can work the
same as before.

 

[Guest]

Since you're aparently able to handle the rebuild, I would guess you are
probably familiar with the command line, and hardware, enough to do it.

The basic method is to put in old as primary, and new as secondary, use the
XCopy command (this Must be done WITHIN windows dos), and then change
secondary drive to primary

XCopy <with switches to get all subfolders, hidden/system files, etc> C:\*.*
D:

Windows XCopy is about the only utility that will get it all.

 

[joseph2k]

Since you're aparently able to handle the rebuild, I would guess you are
probably familiar with the command line, and hardware, enough to do it.

The basic method is to put in old as primary, and new as secondary, use
the XCopy command (this Must be done WITHIN windows dos), and then change
secondary drive to primary

XCopy <with switches to get all subfolders, hidden/system files, etc>
C:\*.* D:

Windows XCopy is about the only utility that will get it all.

Both parted and dd in the linux / unix world will do this quite nicely.
Carefully handled they can even do MS disk drive image moves to a larger
drive, including making it bootable, and successfully use the extra space.