help needed fixing fatherinlaws PC

[Chris]

Hi
My father-in-law has a newish PC which is suffering from problems that
seemed to result from when someone else migrated across alot of his old
programs/files from his old pc. He tries to do work on it now but gets lots
of errors and crashes etc.

Now, he doesnt want to do a reformat of C drive/reinstall of windows just
yet, until he can get someone to remove everything that he needs keeping
(which is a lot)
So i've told him, a quick fix so he can get on with his work maybe to
install a new harddrive, install a seperate operating system on it, then
boot up from that second hardrive/OS and install only the programs he needs
for work on there.

Would this work?

Many thanks for any help

 

[Dave C.]

Hi
My father-in-law has a newish PC which is suffering from problems that
seemed to result from when someone else migrated across alot of his old
programs/files from his old pc. He tries to do work on it now but gets
lots of errors and crashes etc.

Now, he doesnt want to do a reformat of C drive/reinstall of windows just
yet, until he can get someone to remove everything that he needs keeping
(which is a lot)
So i've told him, a quick fix so he can get on with his work maybe to
install a new harddrive, install a seperate operating system on it, then
boot up from that second hardrive/OS and install only the programs he
needs for work on there.

Would this work?

Many thanks for any help

Yeah, that would work. It would be a lot easier to just install a DVD
burner, though. If you get a dual-layer DVD burner (about $70), you can
burn almost 9GB of data onto one disc which costs about $10 currently.
Alternatively, you can use ~4.7GB DVD media, which cost less than a buck a
piece. Some people don't have that much software/data on their entire hard
drive!!! Have him back up everything he needs, and then he can format the
hard drive. If he doesn't even want to open the case, he could even use an
EXTERNAL DVD burner. -Dave

 

[Ginchy]

yeah it`ll work for FILES but not for PROGRAMS

you cant "install" programs onto a c drive from a d drive....its not as
simple as that!

 

[JAD]

start in safe mode and get your data moved off the c/windows folder
then either delete c/windows or install over the top. Your software is
bunk because it was never installed, just copy / pasted to a hard
drive.

 

[Mac Cool]

Chris:

So i've told him, a quick fix so he can get on with his work maybe to
install a new harddrive, install a seperate operating system on it,
then boot up from that second hardrive/OS and install only the
programs he needs for work on there.

That's what I would do. Leave the old drive as a slave, delete the
programs on it and he can store his docs on it.