2010/9/6 David J Brooks <[email protected]>: > >> You can use the old drive as a slave, but any programs you want on the >> new machine will need to be reinstalled, most software cannot simply >> be copied over (One place where Mac's are clearly better than PC's). >> If you don't have install media for them, you'll be out of luck. > > When i had the HD upgraded in this machine in 2006 i think it was, i > mentioned to the repair person(it was a Good Guys computer place in > town, now out of business) is there any way i can get what is on the > current drive loaded to the new one. He said he could "map" the > contents to the new drive. > When i picked up the computer, the new HD was installed and all of my > files, programs etc were on the new drive and all worked fine.
Different story - he copied (by imagaing etc) the entire contents of your old disk onto the new one, expanded the partition to match the bigger disk size (or created another partition to use that space) and then marked the disk as active so as to let it become your C: drive again. Adam is referring to individually installed software as opposed to an entire operating system environment. That is a different story altogether =( Cheers Ecke ----------------------------------------- Cameras don’t shoot people. Photographers shoot people. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
