Creating an account on new computer from old computer

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Hi...need to see if i can get some help on this and hopefully it makes
sense, I posted in another forum already but that solution didnt work for
me......

1. Old computer has 1 drive with 1 account on it
2. New computer 3 seperate drives
3. On a home network
4. Win XP w/ sp3 on both

I'm trying to set up the old account on a new computer, using a second drive
as destination . My intent is to move everything, all files, settings,
passwords. outlook pst...etc.

The new computer has an admin account on C:\ and needs to have another
account on D:\

Can I clone computer 1 and restore on computer 2? File and transfer wizard
doesnt help me much. Is dual booting an option? Or , does anyone have
another solution?
 
Ingoloid said:
Hi...need to see if i can get some help on this and hopefully it
makes sense, I posted in another forum already but that solution
didnt work for me......

1. Old computer has 1 drive with 1 account on it
2. New computer 3 seperate drives
3. On a home network
4. Win XP w/ sp3 on both

I'm trying to set up the old account on a new computer, using a
second drive as destination . My intent is to move everything, all
files, settings, passwords. outlook pst...etc.

The new computer has an admin account on C:\ and needs to have
another account on D:\

Can I clone computer 1 and restore on computer 2? File and
transfer wizard doesnt help me much. Is dual booting an option? Or
, does anyone have another solution?
Click to expand...

Why doesn't the file and transfer wizard help you?

If what you are trying to do is move an *account* - that is the way to do
it. If you are trying to move the applications, that doesn't help you.

Make a virtual machine out of the old computer and put it on the new
computer - then you have the old computer for all times as a virtual machine
you can load at will.
 
I tried using transfer wiz, but it changed my admin account to the old
account and i ended up restoring. My goal is to keep my existing admin
account and create a second account with the old computer info, but I'd like
to have all those files on a second drive, not on my admin drive (if that
makes sense?)
 
Ingoloid said:
I tried using transfer wiz, but it changed my admin account to the
old account and i ended up restoring. My goal is to keep my
existing admin account and create a second account with the old
computer info, but I'd like to have all those files on a second
drive, not on my admin drive (if that makes sense?)
Click to expand...

The Files and Transfer wizard in Windows XP works like this...

You have an account on an old machine you want to move to a new machine (at
least the settings and the personally owned files) - so you run the F.A.S.T.
wizard and do it as the "Old Computer" to export the information.

You *create* an account (manually - you do it - F.A.S.T. is not going to do
this for you) and log ionto it on the new machine. You then use the
F.A.S.T. wizard (as the new machine) to import the files and settings you
exported above.

Does that make sense?
 
maybe I'm missing something. I am logged into a blank account, FAST goes
through the motions, but nothng happened. I will delete the new account,
and start over. will let ya know how it went, thanks sofar.
 
Hi again....

OK..got it to do what it's supposed to do. Thanks for the help. If I had
additional questions about this topic, would I continue here, or start a new
thread?
 
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