Upgrading to another computer

rrr · #1 Feb 22, 2008, 08:09 AM

Could someone give me a walkthrough to how to upgrade to a new computer, whilst keeping the exact data from the old harddrive. I will need to clone/ghost one harddrive onto another. Will I have to uninstall drivers for the old computer before I clone it? I'll also need some free software for ghosting/cloning. I have all the cables needed, so don't worry bout that. Thank you in advance, RrR.

NeedKarma · Feb 22, 2008, 08:17 AM

When I upgrade to a new computer I always simply save my data from the old and do fresh installs of my programs on the new one. I'll burn a DVD or CD with all the data I want to keep (makes a great backup as well). Then I make a list of the applications I had that I want to keep/reinstall.

Cloning/ghosting would only work if you had pretty much the same hardware devices on both computers which is unlikely since I assume your new computer has better, different hardware.

rrr · Feb 22, 2008, 08:35 AM

Hmm, the hardware part is easy to fix, I already said i got this worked out. But what i really want is not to loose all my settings!

NeedKarma · Feb 22, 2008, 08:41 AM

What settings?
Do you know that your newly cloned computer may not boot at all due to too many hardware issues?

rrr · Feb 22, 2008, 10:07 AM

Thus, uninstalling the drivers. The settings i want to keep: Skins for xp, savefiles (A royal pain in the *** to find and copy) configurations for xp, registries etc.



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