I KNOW this wasn't possible a year or so ago but I was wondering if there is a program out there that can transfer the CONTENTS of one to computer to another and install the programs it is transferring. I believe Vista can do something like this.Ghost or Acronis should be capable of that.I have had a look at those and I'm not quite sure that they would do the TRICK. They will transfer from one hard drive to another on the same machine but I'm not sure about from one computer to a different computer. None of the software blurb mentions different computers.Right, exactly. Ghost or Acronis can be used to CREATE an image of the entire hard drive and restore that image to another hard drive. However, Ghost and Acronis are normally used to create image from which the entire contents of the hard drive can be restored on the computer from which the image came, not on a different computer.

This drive image would contain the device drivers for the computer on which it was created. If you try to restore that image to a different computer, that's obviously not going to be a smooth transition unless that target computer is identical to the source computer.

And then, what about Windows activation with Microsoft? This is another issue.Maybe evaluate the free DriveImage XML, which has a option to transfer from one drive to another. Visit http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htmQuote from: ceedee on February 13, 2008, 02:48:22 PM

I know this wasn't possible a year or so ago but I was wondering if there is a program out there that can transfer the contents of one to computer to another and install the programs it is transferring. I believe Vista can do something like this.