Oops! Copying software from old hdd to new...

[Sabie]

For some reason I thought you could copy everything from an old hard drive to cd's and then transfer that info back onto a new hard drive. Is this not the case? Will I ever be able to run all my software that I HAD before I installed this new hard drive?

Is there a resource where I can find out exactly what entries correspond to a particular Microsoft program?

Thanks!

 

[cdogg]

Sabie,

Yes you can, depending on what you are doing. First of all, the backup you made to CD's must have been an exact copy (using an image program like Norton's Ghost preferably). If that's the case, then you can restore the image to a new blank drive and be OK.

However, it appears that you simply made a manual copy of your old drive by hand (drag & drop maybe). If so, are you trying to pull the data back down to a blank drive, or did you already install Windows? Remember that the registry in Windows is updated each time you install a program. Just copying down the folders for each program is not enough.



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[micker377]

Check the files on CD - you will see that they are ALL are changed to "read only", normal for CD. When you copied them back, are they still "read only"? If so, you will have to change them back.