My husband's computer died, but the hard drive still works. I want to replace the hard drive on my computer with his old one, but I want the same programs and everything. There are some programs on my hard drive that I purchased online, so I don't have a CD or anything, and would have to buy them again if I wanted just to use his. Is there any way of doing this?
2007-09-30 13:45:05 · 4 answers · asked by Liz217 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I forgot to mention that the reason I'm doing this is because my hard drive has a bad sector. I want to use the new one before my old one completely craps out. I already have it set up with the master/slave combo, I'm more interested to see if it's worth trying to move my programs over or should I just re-purchase my old programs for the new hard drive. His hard drive currently has the big dollar items such as XP and Office. I may have to spend $150 to re-buy the old programs I can't reinstall.
2007-09-30 14:28:05 · update #1
Cloning a hard drive wipes out the other drives files and replaces the system with yours. You could set his as master and yours as slave. Then when booting to his you could go to my computer, then your drive, find the program you want to run, click on the icon or menu item, open properties and send link to desktop. This should put a link on his windows and tell windows to go to the other drive to run this program. This doesn't always work, but it is worth trying.
2007-09-30 22:03:48 · answer #1 · answered by PCSTech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can clone your hard drive. As a rule, if you go to the manufacturer site of your husbands hard drive, see if they have a download available to do just that.
Your remark regarding your husband having the high dollar programs (i.e. XP Office etc) makes me think that your system is running an older version fo Windows. If you clone, you will have the exact same thing on the new hard drive that you had on the old one.
Try contacting the vendors you purchased the software from, and see if you can get the necessary download/serial numbers to reinstall.
If you can, and you have all the CD's for XP and Office et al, then consider scrubbing his hard drive, and doing a clean install after backing up your files.
2007-09-30 14:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think cloning softwares can help you which can completely clone your this hard disk to your husband's old one.Try these programs www.Acronis.com and Norton Ghost (they are best I think) but you need to attach the both hard disk or simple create a clone disk. If I had two drives I would use them both, by the way its only space you need so attach both drive and enjoy!
2007-09-30 14:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by Waqass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can connect the new hard drive as a slave to the old hard drive and transfer data . From http://fixit.in
2007-09-30 13:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋