Here is what I do:
Start fresh. You won't be able to run your old programs. Slave the old drive like you mentioned to your new Win7 install. Reinstall all your programs on Win7. Copy over all your files. The only settings I ever care about are Outlook and Firefox. For firefox: MozBackup For Outlook, grab the files from: AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook If you are really nervous about losing settings, files, etc... this is what I have done in those situations: Create a clone of your PC and run it as a Virtual Machine on another location. If you ever need to reference something off your 'OLD' PC, you can fire up that VM. That makes the transition a little easier and diminishes the shock of a new PC. You could also TRY to run sysprep on your current PC, shutdown, and fire up the same hard drive in your new PC. No guarantees though, that really depends on the hardware and disk interface. I've done it before, but it takes a little work customizing the Sysprep process. Sam From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MOVING TO NEW COMPUTER 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/> ~
