Solve : Programs on OLD hard drive?

1.	Solve : Programs on OLD hard drive?
Answer» My old computer mother BOARD went south but the hard drive is OK. My question is can i get the programs off the old drive and use them on the new computer? Both have XP OS. Thanks with any helpNo. You cannot simply copy programs from 1 drive to another and expect them to WORK... This is by design. You could however hook up the drive as a slave drive in the new machine and retrieve your other important data...Welcome to CH, best forum in the galaxy. You can get you r data and your settings. But most programs have stuff that GOES into the WINDOWS directory . And they have to be registered in the registry. Therefore you have to install the programs again from the source. There is a data ANS settings transfer wizard. Here is a good article on this topic. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/crawford_november12.mspx Notice that is does not transfer programs.

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