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Mr Pheer · 03-10-2005, 12:19 AM

this morning, my computer wouldnt boot up. It kept getting to the windows xp screen, then the blue screen of death then it would reboot itself.

so I bought a new hard drive, installed it, setup win-xp on it, computer works again.

I put the bad drive in as a slave, even though it wont boot, I can still access it.

Question is, how do I copy over all the installed programs and stuff that i had on the bad drive? Alot of software was purchased with licenses and I dont want to have to repurchase shit or contact companys for my old license keys again. Would also be nice to copy over my emails and shit

Anybody know how to do this?

WiredGuy · 03-10-2005, 12:21 AM

Although I wouldn't recommend it, you could try mirroring the drive contents onto a new drive and then making the new drive the master. Don't do it with the current drive set as master as that will screw your system.

WG

Hornydog4cooter · 03-10-2005, 12:31 AM

I had that same problem last week

who · 03-10-2005, 12:35 AM

This happened to me, you can get norton ghost or something to make a permenant backup of your stuffed drive as it is now, then you can work on installing a new copy of XP over the old one. This way, whatever you do to try and fix it, you'll always have a back up to start again with if you screw it up.

Or, spend $200 and take it in to a professional to tinker with. Sometimes you can get really carried away and end up spending a couple of days with this stuff.

webcrawler · 03-10-2005, 07:05 AM

Norton Ghost will work.

Barefootsies · 03-10-2005, 07:20 AM

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this morning, my computer wouldnt boot up. It kept getting to the windows xp screen, then the blue screen of death then it would reboot itself.

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I had that same problem last week

As did I. How fucking annoying. Had to reformat HD, and reinstall everything. This time I pulled out the junk Fuji drive, so I could not save e-mails, and such for favorites, and e-mail. However, to answer you question, 'google' on how to retrieve your e-mail. There is a simple command you put in outlook, and it will pull all of those cjb or whatever the extension is off your 2nd HD outlook folder. It's simple to do. And tada, you have all your e-mails and contacts back. I've had to do this 5-6 times over the years.

03-10-2005, 12:19 AM	#1
Mr Pheer Retired Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 21,255	how to do this? (computer question) this morning, my computer wouldnt boot up. It kept getting to the windows xp screen, then the blue screen of death then it would reboot itself. so I bought a new hard drive, installed it, setup win-xp on it, computer works again. I put the bad drive in as a slave, even though it wont boot, I can still access it. Question is, how do I copy over all the installed programs and stuff that i had on the bad drive? Alot of software was purchased with licenses and I dont want to have to repurchase shit or contact companys for my old license keys again. Would also be nice to copy over my emails and shit Anybody know how to do this? __________________ 2 lifeguards for Jessica

03-10-2005, 12:21 AM	#2
WiredGuy Pounding Googlebot Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 34,482	Although I wouldn't recommend it, you could try mirroring the drive contents onto a new drive and then making the new drive the master. Don't do it with the current drive set as master as that will screw your system. WG __________________ I play with Google.

03-10-2005, 12:31 AM	#3
Hornydog4cooter Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,859	I had that same problem last week

03-10-2005, 12:35 AM	#4
who So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ICQ #23642053 Posts: 19,593	This happened to me, you can get norton ghost or something to make a permenant backup of your stuffed drive as it is now, then you can work on installing a new copy of XP over the old one. This way, whatever you do to try and fix it, you'll always have a back up to start again with if you screw it up. Or, spend $200 and take it in to a professional to tinker with. Sometimes you can get really carried away and end up spending a couple of days with this stuff.

03-10-2005, 07:05 AM	#5
webcrawler Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: ICQ .:. 286608143 Posts: 2,692	Norton Ghost will work.