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rrr
Feb 22, 2008, 10:09 AM
Could someone give me a walkthrough to how to upgrade to a new computer, whilst keeping the exact data from the old hard drive. I will need to clone/ghost one hard drive 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 about that. Thank you in advance, RrR.

NeedKarma
Feb 22, 2008, 10:17 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, 10:35 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, 10:41 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, 12:07 PM
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.