Yep, you'll have to reinstall all your programs onto the new drive. And
manually copy any data you have, like pictures, music, text files, etc.
Technically you could try removing the new HD and booting with your old
drive - but I'm guessing that the boot would fail when XP started
looking for all the hardware from the old PC, and instead found a bunch
of totally "different" hardware on the new PC. Even if it booted you'd
have to spend a lot of time removing the old stuff from Device Manager,
and installing drivers for all the new stuff.
Good luck,
Donk
Dennis Baecht wrote:
> The fan on my power supply went bad so I shut my old computer down
> before it fried anything. I have a new computer and have installed the
> old hardrive in the new computer. I need to move everything over to the
> new hardrive from the old one. They both have win xp. There is nothing
> on the new drive that I need.
> The question is, what is the best way to accomplish my goal. I tied
> moving a minor program from old to new and tried to run the .exe but it
> didn't work.
>
>
>
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