move vista drive to new computer
Hi Folks,
my desktop PC hardware failed recently, and rather than muck about replacing parts to find out what was wrong with it, I decided to just buy another computer and try swapping the drive.
not unexpected - the system disk will not boot in the new hardware, failing (crash/reset) on loading crcdisk.sys
So I've installed the disk as a secondary drive in the new PC, and can boot up from a new install of vista and can access the old drive fine.
So now I'm seeking advice on how to copy the settings and data from the old disk onto the new system... any suggestions and/or guidance is most welcome and appreciated!
Cheers, Mike.
my desktop PC hardware failed recently, and rather than muck about replacing parts to find out what was wrong with it, I decided to just buy another computer and try swapping the drive.
not unexpected - the system disk will not boot in the new hardware, failing (crash/reset) on loading crcdisk.sys
So I've installed the disk as a secondary drive in the new PC, and can boot up from a new install of vista and can access the old drive fine.
So now I'm seeking advice on how to copy the settings and data from the old disk onto the new system... any suggestions and/or guidance is most welcome and appreciated!
Cheers, Mike.
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Thanks for your comment!
>> But both PCs have the same hardware configuration? If so, Norton Ghost...
that would make it simpler, wouldn't it! ;-)
But no, I decided that I would make this an opportunity to upgrade the hardware too! So now I have a disk that works just perfect as a secondary data drive - all the original data is there, but how do I copy all that user profiles, user data and applications to the new OS? <sigh>
I found the microsoft "User Profile Migration Tool" which might be just what I need, except that I don't know yet if it will use the data stored on the secondary drive. Will soon find out.
Cheers, Mike.
>> But both PCs have the same hardware configuration? If so, Norton Ghost...
that would make it simpler, wouldn't it! ;-)
But no, I decided that I would make this an opportunity to upgrade the hardware too! So now I have a disk that works just perfect as a secondary data drive - all the original data is there, but how do I copy all that user profiles, user data and applications to the new OS? <sigh>
I found the microsoft "User Profile Migration Tool" which might be just what I need, except that I don't know yet if it will use the data stored on the secondary drive. Will soon find out.
Cheers, Mike.
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in the end, I used the windows vista easy profile migration feature. severely lacking in functionality from what I expected it would be able to do by reading the documentation about it, but better than starting from scratch at least! ;-)
Thanks everyone for comments and suggestions.
Cheers, Mike.
Thanks everyone for comments and suggestions.
Cheers, Mike.
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That is not really what I am after. Essentially, the result I am seeking is one where the new PC looks (and runs) exactly like the original - same login users, same printers and devices loaded, same software loaded.
Ideally I want to boot the disk from the old computer, failing that, I want to import all the users (there are 4) and email, bookmarks, mydocuments, etc etc.
Cheers!