Re: [H] Laplink PCMover for system software transfer

[Anthony Q. Martin]

W. D. wrote: At 22:08 5/17/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Oh yes. I do backups to an HD in a firewire case. Moving my data over is not an issue, I've done that a thousand times. What I'm wanting to do is to move all the apps and their setting over and to avoid having to reinstall and reconfigure everything. That's the hard part. Well, perhaps you could defrag, create a new partition, then use either Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image to make a snapshot. Put that in the new partition. Copy to similar partition on new computer. Restore image. I like to have at least 5 partitions: System, Programs, Other Programs, Email, Data. Maybe I'm missing something....this new system has a different mobo with all different stuff - video, sound, etc.  If I move a partitin, then doesn't all that "driver" and "system" stuff get brought over? They data is just fine, but I don't want to overwrite the "system" level stuff that's already set up on the new machine.  That would be like taking a bootable HD from one machine and inserting it into another, than then turning the new system on....all the wrong drivers, right?