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Programs on OLD hard drive
« on: December 10, 2009, 07:22:45 AM »
My old computer mother board went south but the hard drive is OK. My question is can i get the programs off the old drive and use them on the new computer? Both have XP OS.
Thanks with any help
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Re: Programs on OLD hard drive
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2009, 07:25:52 AM »
No.
You cannot simply copy programs from 1 drive to another and expect them to work...

This is by design.

You could however hook up the drive as a slave drive in the new machine and retrieve your other important data...
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Re: Programs on OLD hard drive
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2009, 07:36:06 AM »
Welcome to CH, best forum in the galaxy.

You can get you r data and your settings.
But most programs have stuff that goes into the WINDOWS directory .
And they have to be registered in the registry.
Therefore you have to install the programs again from the source.

There is a data ans settings transfer wizard.
Here is a good article on this topic.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/crawford_november12.mspx

Notice that is does not transfer programs.
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