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Copy Laptop Hard Drive to a Desktop
Name: Paul McKenzie Date: January 19, 2005 at 04:40:35 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: pentium iv
Comment:
I need to copy my hard drive on my laptop to a desktop PC. I especially need to copy the registry, to keep Visual Studio settings generated by a previous user. Does anyone know how to do this, is it possible ?
Name: mesich Date: January 19, 2005 at 05:10:12 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Paul, hello everyone,
I use an adapter that connects a 2.5in notebook IDE hard drive to a 40-pin IDE cable such as this one
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Connect the laptop hard drive as a slave in the desktop and copy everything over to the desktop hard drive.
Best Regards, Mesich
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Response Number 2
Name: bpwrightwv Date: January 19, 2005 at 06:47:23 Pacific
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doesnt xp provide a utility to help you migrate settings to a new computer? I thought I may have read that somewhere....
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Response Number 3
Name: johnr Date: January 19, 2005 at 09:04:02 Pacific
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You can certainly do a backup of your registry - number of ways, but 1 is to run Regedit, choose File/export & save it somewhere handy (it's quite large, mine is about 60Mb on this machine) Then just use/borrow a pen drive to copy it over to your desktop. I think what you may bew talikng about is the 'Files & settings transfer wizard' (Programs/Accessories/System tools) which you could take a look at, but it's really meant for migrating settings to a new PC rather than just as a backup.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: January 19, 2005 at 09:12:15 Pacific
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johnr suggestion will help you copy the registry, but I hope you will not try to import it into your desktop registry.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: wanderer Date: January 19, 2005 at 11:46:06 Pacific
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because if you do you will corrupt your desktop.
If I read this right you want to xfer a program to the desktop. This is not something I believe can be accomplished with files and settings transfer wizard or any kind of registry copy.
There is a program I have used going from 98 to w2K to transfer installed programs. Worked great. The product was PC Upgrade Commander by Vcom but it was discontinued.
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