Data recovery from dead hard drive to new Vista machine

[chambersbobby]

Greetings,

I had my hard drive from my laptop die a few days ago. I was able to
recover almost all of the files except for a few Windows file to an external
hard drive enclosure. The old laptop was a Vista Home Premium unit and the
new laptop is Ultimate. If it's of any consequence or usefulness, the
recovery software I used was from R-Studio.

Is there anyway to transfer over my files and programs to the new laptop I'm
using? I contact Gateway for support and they were useless. Windows was not
the issue, it was a faulty hard drive.

Any assistance would be hugely appreciative.

Thanks,
Bobby

 

[Richard in AZ]

| Greetings,
|
| I had my hard drive from my laptop die a few days ago. I was able to
| recover almost all of the files except for a few Windows file to an external
| hard drive enclosure. The old laptop was a Vista Home Premium unit and the
| new laptop is Ultimate. If it's of any consequence or usefulness, the
| recovery software I used was from R-Studio.
|
| Is there anyway to transfer over my files and programs to the new laptop I'm
| using? I contact Gateway for support and they were useless. Windows was not
| the issue, it was a faulty hard drive.
|
| Any assistance would be hugely appreciative.
|
| Thanks,
| Bobby
|
Are the rescued files in a compressed or secured format? If so you may have to use the R-Studio
software on your new computer to read and recover the files.
If the rescued files are in their native format (i.e. DOC for Word documents, etc.) you can just
copy them back from the external drive and then "take ownership".

 

[DL]

You are not going to be able to recover programs, unless you have the
origonal install file, as if you download an app fron the web

 

[chambersbobby]

Thanks Richard,

I've already recovered the files and everything was saved except a few
Windows folder files. I was just hoping to move the actual programs over to
the new laptop as I'll have to reinstall 50 to 60 programs.

From one of the other responses I got it looks like it's not going to happen.

Thanks,
Bobbyu

 

[Steve Cochran]

You have to reinstall the programs. The programs establish entries in the
registry and unless you preserved the registry (which is tricky), then you
have to reinstall in order to regenerate those registry entries.

steve