Moving Data from old HDD to New HDD in a New PC
 

Help..!

I'm looking for advice please.

Have an older pc (Win ME) and now wish to transfer data / settings / emails / address book / etc etc to a new hdd in a new(er) pc running XP, with the least pain possible.

I installed the old hd into the new pc and it was recognised, but as pc had booted using XP, the old hdd just showed various folders, but not the programs - ie Outlook Express didn't show up, I presume as it hadn't started in ME. (Outlook Express did show up under XP, but as a new copy).

Is there any easy way of doing it? There are a number of email addresses being used, and it could become tedious setting them all up again on the new pc. Also, there are the various downloaded programmes etc that I would like to transfer across as well. Never mind all the documents that I want to transfer.

What I really want is the new pc running everything under XP, that the old pc did under ME.

Thanks in advance.

MS thoughtfully provided a Wizard with XP to do precisely that - it's called the User Setting Migration Wizard or somesuch.

Basically it allows you to copy most of your personal settings to a file which you can then move to a new PC and import.

Note - it only works for the currently logged-on user, so if multiple users need to be migrated you have to run it for each.

SD

Acronis disk image
 

I've just used this program on my Son's PC to shovel the whole lot on to a new hard disk.

After it was done the PC booted into XP as normal - and all the programs operated normally with all data intact.

I obtained the program for free on a magazine disc. (We like free!)


Regards
Exeng

How to back up and recover Outlook Express data

exeng, not sure that that would be any use in this case doesn't that just do the whole disk rather than specific data?

spannersatcx
 

You are correct.

I'd failed to read paragraph 2 properly.


Regards
Exeng

Thanks for the replies so far - will see how I get on..!

HJ
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