I upgraded my computer to a bigger HDD. I copied the files from the old drive but they don't work. I had to reinstall Windows, Explorer and lots fo drivers for modems and display etc. Office 2000 programs don't work and neither do a lot of other programs like AOL and ACT. I get two different messages both along the lines of "Program is not installed properly or you need to install from the original location".
Because I reinstalled Windows (Win 98 SE) I lost all the upgrades, drivers, preferences and improvements I had downloaded from MS website. I'm worried about losing all the same things from other programs. Office 2000, ACT 6.0, Quicken 2000, Turbotax and all the preferences etc. that go along with them.
How can a person add a new HDD and copy all the stuff without all these hassels? Maybe there is some kind of software that knows where all the files for each program are stored and moves them to the new drive in the right directorys so they can be found.
Computer is 1.7 GHZ Pentium 4, 512 MB Ram, 2 HDD (Both IDE/ATA) - 30 GB (old drive) - 80 GB (new drive), CDROM, Best 56K modem, Nvidia graphics card and Sharp LCD. display.