[cornedbeef]

Hi,

A friend of mine wants to know if he can transfer his old pc's hard drive (80GB) to another PC which has less GB's. Will he be transferring everything by doing this to the recipient PC or is it not that simple?

Thanks.

[Scleros]

Will he be transfering everything by doing this to the recipient pc or is it not that simple?

He will be transferring everything by doing this and it is also not that simple. If the drive will be replacing the boot/system drive in the recipient PC and the hardware of the two PCs does not match exactly, the operating system (Windows?) should be rebuilt and any applications reinstalled. If the drive will be added as an additional drive in the recipient PC, any software applications that he wishes to use that are installed on the drive should be reinstalled to either drive so that their installation is proper. If he is only concerned about retaining non-program data that he created (e.g. Office documents, Outlook Express email, etc.), installation as a second drive will retain all the data, however for certain types of data (email), accessing the data may become impossible or difficult without reinstalling the original application that created the data or exporting the data first to a monolithic archive file(s).

[cornedbeef]

Hi,
Thanks very much for that. My mate has read it and said he thinks it's not worth the hassle involved. At least you have made his mind up for him.
Cheers.

[excon]

Hello corned:

I'm not REAL technical, so when I needed to transfer my files from one computer to another, I bought a fairly cheap program called intellimover. It came with direct USB connection, and allowed me to transfer what I wanted.

Worked for me, anyway.

excon