Newbie Q re upgrading HD

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We got a new computer for Chistmas. Is there any way to transfer the
contents of our old 40Gb hard drive to our new 80Gb hard drive without
having to reinstall all of the applications? The operating systems on
both hard drives are the same (WinXP Home), so I'm wondering if there
is a backup program that will accomplish this.

After this length of time, the thought of trying to locate all of
those old program disks -- much less of spending days trying to
reinstall everything -- sounds like a "more trouble than it's worth"
proposition.

Thanks for any help.

LR
 
We got a new computer for Chistmas. Is there any way to transfer the
contents of our old 40Gb hard drive to our new 80Gb hard drive without
having to reinstall all of the applications? The operating systems on
both hard drives are the same (WinXP Home), so I'm wondering if there
is a backup program that will accomplish this.

After this length of time, the thought of trying to locate all of
those old program disks -- much less of spending days trying to
reinstall everything -- sounds like a "more trouble than it's worth"
proposition.

Thanks for any help.

LR
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I'm a little puzzled how the new 80 gb hard drive has XP Home installed
on this. Is this really true?

Why dont' you keep the existing 40 gb drive as is, no change. Install
the second drive as a "slave" second drive to give you a total of 120
mb. Instructions with the drive should tell you how to do this.

It will become a D: drive (or the next available drive letter) and means
you don't have to mess around with reinstallations.

Doesn't answer your question, but might be a better way forward.
 
Try the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST)," check the following
site for information:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

Note, you will need to reinstall applications as XP on the new system
doesn't know they exist. Simply copying them to the new drive of a
different computer does not accomplish the task, they need to be installed.
Also understand, cloning or otherwise imaging the old drive to the new one
won't work either because the drivers and underlying hardware settings are
for different hardware configurations and devices.
 
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We got a new computer for Chistmas. Is there any way to transfer the
contents of our old 40Gb hard drive to our new 80Gb hard drive without
having to reinstall all of the applications?
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Sorry, no. You can't do this with the applications. You can
easily move data files, but not programs. That's because the
programs are not simply located in a single place, but have
references all over the place (in the registry and elsewhere)
that won't get moved.

The operating systems on
both hard drives are the same (WinXP Home), so I'm wondering if there
is a backup program that will accomplish this.

Nope.


After this length of time, the thought of trying to locate all of
those old program disks -- much less of spending days trying to
reinstall everything -- sounds like a "more trouble than it's worth"
proposition.
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Sorry, but that's your only choice.
 
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