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vista, one pc to another

  • 09-05-2008 2:31pm
    #1
    sebastianlieken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭


    right. this isnt quite the case, but its the easiest way for me to describe whats happenin, and is pretty much the exact same.

    i just got a new pc (self-built) and threw vista on it myself. old pc also has vista. (both vistas are the exact same, 32bit ultimate) i want to copy over "EVERYTHING" from old pc to new. including outlook contacts, past emails, settings, preferences (emphasis on the "everything")

    whats the easiest and most reliable way of doing this?....if i create a complete pc back-up on old pc using the vista backup option, and load it onto new pc, will that work?

    I basically want to create an image of the old hdd and copy it to the new one.


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  • #2
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    http://www.acronis.com/company/inpress/2002/08-cnet-ti.html

    create the image while still in windows.
    there's a free trial there, but if you look hard enough you could find a full copy somewhere.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Imaging will fail if they use different HAL's or Hard Drive Controller Drivers.

    you can do a backup / restore - some info here

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137798.aspx
    Since Complete PC Backup includes an image of the entire computer, some restrictions apply when restoring to different hardware. First, the backup image contains drivers that are used to boot to the machine after the restore completes. In rare cases, the drivers needed to boot on the new machine might not be present. This might happen when restoring an image backup taken on one type of disk controller (IDE, SATA, or SCSI) to another type of disk controller. Even in this case, there is still a good chance you can complete the restore successfully, because the common Windows drivers included in the image backup would likely be compatible.


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