Installing failed computer files into Vista

Posted: 10-21-2007, 09:21 PM
My Sony Vaio laptop motherboard failed and I bought a new HP desktop. All of
my programs and In fact a complete image of my entire C and D drives from my
laptop are on a separate hard drive. How do I load all these programs into
Vista? I am particularly concerned about my entire hotmail address list and
saved message files.
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Rick Rogers
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Re: Installing failed computer files into Vista
Posted: 10-21-2007, 09:53 PM
Hi,

The programs need to be reinstalled from their original installation media,
you can't just copy them over or run them from the old drive.

Have you tried logging into hotmail.com yet?

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"Engineer11" <Engineer11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My Sony Vaio laptop motherboard failed and I bought a new HP desktop. All
> of
> my programs and In fact a complete image of my entire C and D drives from
> my
> laptop are on a separate hard drive. How do I load all these programs
> into
> Vista? I am particularly concerned about my entire hotmail address list
> and
> saved message files.
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Mick Murphy
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RE: Installing failed computer files into Vista
Posted: 10-21-2007, 09:57 PM
Hotmail is a web based email program, and as such is not stored on your
computer.
Log into Hotmail from any computer, and everything is there!

"Engineer11" wrote:
> My Sony Vaio laptop motherboard failed and I bought a new HP desktop. All of
> my programs and In fact a complete image of my entire C and D drives from my
> laptop are on a separate hard drive. How do I load all these programs into
> Vista? I am particularly concerned about my entire hotmail address list and
> saved message files.
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Bruce Chambers
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Re: Installing failed computer files into Vista
Posted: 10-21-2007, 11:10 PM
Engineer11 wrote:
> My Sony Vaio laptop motherboard failed and I bought a new HP desktop. All of
> my programs and In fact a complete image of my entire C and D drives from my
> laptop are on a separate hard drive. How do I load all these programs into
> Vista?

You'll need to install the applications on the new computer using the
original installation media. Unless it's a very small, stand-alone
executable, a program can't just be copied. If it's a standard
Vista-compatible application, there'll be dozens of hidden systems files
and an untold number of registry entries that would also have to be
recreated on the new computer.

> I am particularly concerned about my entire hotmail address list and
> saved message files.
Data can most easily be transfered by slaving the hard drives into the
new computer and then simply using Windows Explorer to copy the desired
files to the new computer's hard drive.


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