Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue May 27 17:58:02 CDT 2008
The only real way around this is to image your drives. Then re-image it back to the new drive. I do not know any software smart enough to just pull off any registered software. ...And then you run into having to re-register the OS and applications from MS just because you now have a larger drive. If you find something that can resolve this please let me know. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:17 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I... ...take a perfectly good, bootable IDE hard disk from one PC that's seen better days and mount it in a new PC with a new hard disk, and make the old drive boot the new PC? I mean, really. Are we forever doomed to having to re-install every bleeping bit of software on a new PC? I ask because it can become very problematical to re-install some software if there never was a CD for it. Besides the fact that it could take hours and hours to go through the routine and download all the farging upgrades to get everything on the new system to the point that it's as usable as the old PC. Any way at all? I've seen our network admin do very interesting things with external SATA drives to switch which drive is the bootable one after making a clone copy with Future Systems' Casper. But what about plain Jane IDE drives? Anybody? Regards, Steve Erbach Neenah, WI _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com