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?

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 had that same problem last week

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.

Norton Ghost will work.

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.

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