Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: new computer-how to move programs form old computer

Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: new computer-how to move programs form old computer http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: new computer-how to move programs form old computer en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:32:42 +0000 hotdoge3 on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36774 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:58:43 +0000 hotdoge3 36774@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Key's be in the registry 9 times out of 10 or on a file,if the old HD no good it not a fix to sent to new HD some file on the Harddisk may not be to good or missing if it was me, I go to new on the new harddrive & see if I can that software as a free ver may as good or near as good Whiterabbit-uk on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36670 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:27:32 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 36670@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Quite a few of the giveaways are free standing. When you transfer progs from one hard drive to another the only thing that doesn't get copied is the registry were all the reg codes are stored. So any program that has a reg file stored in the registry will no longer work as a full version. The only way to find out which still work i to tranfer and check. The good news is that all of the 'double games' are free standing, lol. copmom on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36640 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:50:47 +0000 copmom 36640@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ debbieg, maybe you can pick up a spare HD to copy the one that's dying to? Heard that sometimes if a hard drive is put in the freezer for awhile, sometimes you can get it to work for awhile to hopefully capture what it's got on it. debbieg on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36638 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:38:34 +0000 debbieg 36638@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Thanks for the help suzzyqz and copmom and goodgotd. I understand about the rule #7 hotdoge3, no need to be so mean about it, sometimes there are ways to do things others have found that can be shared! So I guess there isn't much chance to move things. I had to get a new computer because the hard drive is giving up the ghost in my old one. I was just hoping upon hope some computer wizard would have the magical answer for me. Thanks for the info. hotdoge3 on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36621 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:27:37 +0000 hotdoge3 36621@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2030" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2030</a> Rules Specific to the Giveaway Forums see # 7 Do not ask how to install/transfer new come all the time no need goodgotd on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36600 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:32:16 +0000 goodgotd 36600@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ most sata machines still have pata for dvd's, don't they? hook up to one of those. copmom on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36576 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:48:19 +0000 copmom 36576@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ debbieg.. I think what suzzyqz is advising is good advice to follwo. I've always had 2 hard drives in my machines. You can even take the hard drive from the old machine and install it inside an external HD case to use that way if you can't hook up the older one. Like my older one is an IDE and this machine is SATA, so couldn't install the older one, but can run as an external. suzzyqz on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36574 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:39:55 +0000 suzzyqz 36574@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ debbieg I recently built a new computer with XP and my old computer was win2k. I copied my win2k hard drive to an external drive. Some of the programs from here still work. NO alawar will work. Can you use your old drive as an extra internal drive? That's probably the best way to get some to work. debbieg on "new computer-how to move programs form old computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3535#post-36559 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:42:44 +0000 debbieg 36559@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I have a new computer and need to move my old games and programs from game/giveaway to it. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? I have such great things in my old computer and don't want to loose them.