I haven't tried this myself, but it occurred to me that you might be able to make an image of your existing disk (I'm assuming XP) and mount it on a VM in Win7. Perhaps someone else has tried and can say whether its either a great idea, or one that is only going to cause you pain.
Jeff On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Murray Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm well aware that if I purchase a new computer, it most likely will > come with Windows 7 installed. I would like to be able to easily and quickly > retain all my existing files and programs, and I know that I can't just move > my old hard disk drive into the new machine and make it drive 0 and be up > and running without some work. So, I'm thinking about just adding my old > drive as drive "D" on the new machine and running the old programs off of > that drive. I can always move files and non-program stuff to the new drive, > or to a 2nd partition on the new drive but to reinstall my old programs will > be a pain. Will my approach work? Also, if I choose to get a laptop to > replace my old desktop, since I won't be able to install my old hard drive > from my old desktop computer, can I just partition the drive and then do an > image copy to the 2nd partition without any real issues? > > > *Murray* > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
