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[cheekbones3]

I'm looking for a little advice folks: I'm planning to transfer most of the data on this computer to another one over the weekend, and I'm wondering what the most efficient way to do this is. I've got a router which I could maybe use, if I set up a little network, but is there an easier way? Also, how does the transferral thing affect installed programs? Say if I copied one hard drive to the other, would I have to reinstall everything? And how does one keep one's licences intact?

Cheers.

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[r1chard.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about just taking your hard disk from the old computer to the new one as a secondary storage device? You will need to reinstall all your software if you are moving to a machine with an existing operating system. If you own the licences to the software you run then you can just reinstall with the old licence without any problem (I assume). If you don't you will have to crack the software again.

You can create mirrors of harddrives a variety of ways. If you are using Windows, then Norton Ghost should do the job: it comes with the Norton Utilities, I think, which are pretty easy to come by, and often with a free trial. You will need both drives in one machine, and the resulting hard disk should be an exact copy of the original (i.e. it will be bootable, and all your software and data will still be intact).

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Turns out that since I didn't have that much data, I've just transferred everything on a CD-RW...not very efficient, but it saved dismantling stuff...

[cr4k.livejournal.com]

oh right

[cr4k.livejournal.com]

yeah so obviously the quickest way of getting data from one hard drive to another is when they are in the same machine...

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Aye, but couldn't be bothered moving stuff from one to the other. All done now anyway!

[cr4k.livejournal.com]

course there's nowt wrong with a bit of RJ45 =p