Scottpat Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 OK, the time has come to buy a new PC for the office. The old stone tablet is just wearing out! What I'm looking for is a good and easy to use cloning software so I can move programs from my old computer to the new system. Any suggestions on a cloning program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkenney Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Don't know about a cloning program (don't like software), but I've had good success with merely adding the original drive to the new machine as drive D (or whatever) and simply copying the files from one drive to the other. 'Course if your hard drive 'dies' this won't work - but then your way beyond the cloning stage anyway. May void your warranty. If it's a laptop your 'cloning' I just use backup (does anybody make them) copies that I've created throughout the year. Software - Free 15 day full-functional trial http://www.drive-image.com/?GGLAW901 If you can't do it in 15 days . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 If the new system uses a different operating system or even just a different version of one, it's a hornet's nest. The geeks might say otherwise, but that's my experience. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Don't forget your 3d inspection. It may need an upgrade for a different operating system. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Google and download Carbon Copy Cloner. http://www.tucows.com/preview/291721 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkenney Posted February 18, 2012 Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Google and download Carbon Copy Cloner Apple only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottpat Posted February 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2012 Don't forget your 3d inspection. It may need an upgrade for a different operating system. Marc Yep, that is one reason I'm switching over to HIP. 3D has pretty much priced themselves out of the market as far as I'm concerned. Their customer service is lacking big time and if you do not subscribe to their yearly service you get no help. I running 9.0.2 version and from what I have been told it will not work on Windows 7 very well if at all. But for almost $1000 I can get the new upgrade that works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 There is hardware, not software, that allows you to run your old HD with a USB connector. I haven't tried it, yet. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?l ... ee0a0aRCRD I use an external drive, so I can just plug it in to another PC anytime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 OK, the time has come to buy a new PC for the office. The old stone tablet is just wearing out! What I'm looking for is a good and easy to use cloning software so I can move programs from my old computer to the new system. Any suggestions on a cloning program? It's not going to work. The programs just aren't going to like moving from an old operating system to a new one. It'll be like me trying to transplant okra from Georgia to Oregon. Make a list of your programs and do fresh reinstalls in the new system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dirks Jr Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 I wouldnt want to bog down a new system with a total clone. I would copy the most important things to an external usb disc so accessing them with the new machine would be easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 I wouldnt want to bog down a new system with a total clone. I would copy the most important things to an external usb disc so accessing them with the new machine would be easier. He's wanting to copy his program files. It won't be much use having them on an external disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottpat Posted February 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 I wouldnt want to bog down a new system with a total clone. I would copy the most important things to an external usb disc so accessing them with the new machine would be easier. He's wanting to copy his program files. It won't be much use having them on an external disc. Well that was what I wanting to do, but that is looking more and more like a pipe dream! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmeagle Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Scott, 99% of programs on Windows write to the system registry (ironically HIP is one of the few exceptions) so you need to reinstall them to work. The main thing is moving your data and getting the USB cable to connect your old laptop drive is one way or just do it via flash drive or over the network. If you get stuck with something just let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Meyer Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Scott, First install all your programs on the new machine. Then move all your data and settings using Windows Easy Transfer via your home network (the easiest and fastest way) or a USB drive, external drive, etc. Easy Transfer is built into Windows 7 and Vista, and you can download it for XP. There is a wizard that guides you through the process and you select what gets transferred. Here's one trick: when it asks you to start the transfer, click OK on both machines almost simultaneously, otherwise you may get an error message and have to start all over. The great thing about it is your desktop settings, file structure, etc. will be exactly the same as on your old machine. It takes a long time, though, hours and hours depending on how much you are moving. I just used this procedure to move all my stuff to a new machine, there were just a few things that didn't get moved like email contacts, mailboxes, etc., maybe I didn't select those during the setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 When I got this box, I just backed up everything onto a 500 gb backup drive and then installed it on my new computer as "Old Computer" and now I can access all of the old stuff plus new stuff. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 I just went through a scrub of my notebook's hard drive and loaded W-7 Ultimate along with Office Pro Plus 2010. I keep all my 'data' files on an external HDD to begin with so it was just a matter of reinstalling the programs on the notebook once I got the new OS leveled out. Dom's right ... copying/pasting/cloning just doesn't work. The registry would not be at all happy with things. I have some legacy combination printers and some older applications that balked at first with 'old drivers', but Windows was able to find all but about two and I downloaded them from the vendor's site and updated them. Be sure you make appropriate backups of your e-mail contacts and items such as that (depends upon your e-mail client of course). I thought I had done that correctly, but did not and was fearing I had lost them. Turns out I had a backup on my HDD of the inner backup of some nature for my e-mail client and was able to extract them and reload into the new client. Whew! All in all ... W-7 is pretty nice with my change from XP-Pro. My backup machine and my wife's are still on XP-Pro. I've considered Apple, but that is a bigger move with more $$ than I can take on currently. Scott - best of luck in the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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