Getting new System

[Jim Brown]

I am getting a new system and would like to keep all my programs and
settings from my old system. I have a slave hard drive in my old system and
will be putting it in my new system. So at first my new system will have
only a 160GB drive. I will not be able to use transfer files and settings
program because of this.
I have Norton Ghost and would like to use it. If I do will this cause
any problems since I have a new motherboard in the new system?
Is it possible for me to make a partition on my new hard drive with
same name as the slave on my old drive and use Transfer files and settings
to that? Can I then move that partition and data to my slave drive after in
stalling it in my new system? I would use Ghost for that.
I would like first to know if the Transfer files and settings program
works OK?
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Thank you,
Jim Brown

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[dmac]

what I did was take the drive that is going to be in the new pc and while in
the old one create 2 partitions. use ghost to create a virtual image on the
second partition of that drive. make sure you have created a ghost boot
disk.
take that drive and put in new pc, making sure its setup right as far as
master/slave, and boot machine from ghost boot disk. then using ghost
restore the first partition on that drive (it will become c) from the image
file on the second partition. the new partition will have same names as the
original. you may (most likely) have to reactivate due to hardware changes.
I'm not going to get into eula and uninstall issues, thats up to you.
this has worked for me 3 or 4 times due to my changing drives and
motherboards in my setup.

however, a clean install is the better solution in long run.

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David MacLeod
Etna, Maine USA
P4 2.8 OC to 3.13
1 GB DDR 466
Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB
2 Seagate 120 RAID 0