Guest W. Watson Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 I'm about to start building a new PC with an ASUS MB (SATA/PCI, PCIe, IDE, etc.) from the remnants of a PC with an ABIT MB (IDE/PCI). The old PC has W2K installed on its C-drive. I've been told it might be possible to do a transfer of the OS, apps and data from the old PC to the new PC using something like Norton Ghost or Achron (sp?). I would mount the old (IDE) HD as the D-drive, and the new SATA drive as the C-drive. Is that true? I would expect to have to find new drivers. Is that pretty much it? Where would I get the drivers and how would I know which to find? Is W2K going to tell me when I try to boot up on the new system? It's tempting to do this if it would work, but my old PC has about 6-10 apps to re-install. It may take a few hours to install, and some time to scrape up data files. Suggestions? -- Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>
Guest W. Watson Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 [PLAIN]Re: Moving [software/Ghost] from an ABIT KD7A MB to a ASUS P5NSLIMB[/PLAIN] Re: Moving [software/Ghost] from an ABIT KD7A MB to a ASUS P5NSLIMB Subject sound a little too hardware-ish I guess. W. Watson wrote: > I'm about to start building a new PC with an ASUS MB (SATA/PCI, PCIe, > IDE, etc.) from the remnants of a PC with an ABIT MB (IDE/PCI). The old > PC has W2K installed on its C-drive. I've been told it might be possible > to do a transfer of the OS, apps and data from the old PC to the new PC > using something like Norton Ghost or Achron (sp?). I would mount the old > (IDE) HD as the D-drive, and the new SATA drive as the C-drive. Is that > true? I would expect to have to find new drivers. Is that pretty much > it? Where would I get the drivers and how would I know which to find? Is > W2K going to tell me when I try to boot up on the new system? > > It's tempting to do this if it would work, but my old PC has about 6-10 > apps to re-install. It may take a few hours to install, and some time to > scrape up data files. Suggestions? -- Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>
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