----- Original Message ----- From: "ravi" <gadfly at exitleft.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] computer question
> Seth Ackerman wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the standard procedure is for transfering the
contents
> > of your old computer's hard drive onto your new computer?
> >
>
> there isn't one. depends on what your system (OS) is, what you want to
> copy, etc.
>
> assuming you are running windows, one way is enable sharing (probably
> control panel -> network settings), share your entire "C:" drive from
> the source (old) machine, "map" (tools->map network drive, in windows
> explorer) it (\\old-machine-name\C$) on the new machine (as another
> drive, say F:). you can now browse through the drive and copy files you
> want.
>
> in reality, you probably want your user data, in specific application
> data. windows tends to distribute user data over quite a few places, so
> this is a bit of a pain. if the source host is a newer windows system,
> you can look in the "C:\Documents and Settings" directory, and perhaps
> copy over user directories from there to the new host (be warned: i have
> never done this stuff and i am not sure what the effects of over-writing
> existing files may be).
>
> applications themselves will mostly need to be re-installed. OS
> customizations, settings, add-ons, patches, etc are probably also better
> off being manually repeated on the target host. in particular, copying
> over the windows registry is probably dangerous.
>
> otoh, if you want your new computer to look exactly like your old, just
> pop out the hard disk from the old and plonk it into the new (you may
> need to set master/slave jumper settings to have your system boot off
> the old disk).
>
> i hope this sketchy advice is of some use. thats about all i know of
> windows...
>
> --ravi
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