XP DRIVE AND W7

[LAM168]

I recently bought my son a new PC for his games. He has an AMD 3500 processor and it wasn't good enough to play the new games. I bought an AMD quad core 2.9 Ghz, 750 GIG HD, 4GB ram computer from HP with Windows 7.

Because he has so many files saved from his other games I want to just install his old hard drive to the new PC as a slave. But can this be done because his old hard drive which is 500 GIG has XP on it.

Thanks for your suggestions.

[Allan]

Sure. You won't be able to boot to the XP installation, but you can use it for whatever you like. Unless there's something on it you need, format it (either before or after installing it in the new system).

[LAM168]

Well that's just it. When he plays these games they leave files on the PC that he needs to continue where he left off on the certain levels. So I wanted to either transfer these files to the new PC or just install the actual XP drive in the W7 PC as a second drive.

So he won't be able to access these files on the XP system booting to the W7 drive?

[Allan]

Yes, he should be able to access them.

[LAM168]

Thank you!

[Allan]

Sure. Depending on where the files are you may need to take ownership. Here's how: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

[BC_Programmer]

You could also look into using Windows 7 Easy Transfer Wizard, which was specifically designed to do pretty much what you have in mind here. (transfer documents,saved games, application settings, etc)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/The-Complete-Guide-to-Windows-Easy-Transfer