Importing Drivers and DLLs to a New Partition?

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MitchellCowen

Hi everyone,

Thanks to all for your help in the past. I was hoping I could get
advice on the following.

My computer crashed and burned twice before. I finally installed
Windows on a new partition.
How do I run the executables and load the drivers that were living on
the old partitions?

These are 2 separate questions:
1. I would like to be able to run software such as Adobe Acrobat,
Microsoft Word, etc.
2. I would like to be able to use my printer, my wireless card, etc

Is there any easyish way to do this? Can I move files from my WINDOWS
directory on the old partitions? Can I somehow move symbols from the
old registry on these partitions?

Obviously, I don't understand the innards of Windows XP so your
patience and intelligence will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Mitch
 
Hi everyone,

Thanks to all for your help in the past. I was hoping I could get
advice on the following.

My computer crashed and burned twice before. I finally installed
Windows on a new partition.
How do I run the executables and load the drivers that were living on
the old partitions?

These are 2 separate questions:
1. I would like to be able to run software such as Adobe Acrobat,
Microsoft Word, etc.
2. I would like to be able to use my printer, my wireless card, etc

Is there any easyish way to do this? Can I move files from my WINDOWS
directory on the old partitions? Can I somehow move symbols from the
old registry on these partitions?

Obviously, I don't understand the innards of Windows XP so your
patience and intelligence will be much appreciated.
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If XP was installed clean on a different partition, then the programs in the
old installation will not run, and there is no way, really, to move them
over. They will have to be reinstalled. All but the simplest of programs
write to the registry. A new XP install creates a new registry. There is
no way to recreate all the program registry entries, there can be hundreds
or thousands for one program, without reinstalling the programs. A few,
small, simple programs run just on their executable but certainly none of
those you mentioned.

Same way with drivers for hardware. Reinstall the drivers.

I'm not sure why you have had computer crashes, but you might want to think
about getting a drive imaging program such as Acronis True Image. This
allows you to create and save an image of the drive on other media such as
an external hard drive or DVD, or to clone the drive to another drive. That
way if something crashes the system which can't be repaired, the image can
be restored (or the clone drive substituted) and you're back in business
quickly. There are many posts in this newsgroup about drive imaging /
cloning and how to do it.
 
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