loading programs from an older hard drive

Carl Smith;511414 Wrote:

> I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on
> my computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system
> is not presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating
> system would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you
> could add them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling
> it How do you do that In Vista?

I haven't successfully transferred a mainstream application from one
hard disk to another (without the installation disks) since the days of
Windows 3.1 and MS Word 2.0!

Re-Install the program from the original media. That's the only way.


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Carl Smith wrote:

> I am trying to load programs from an old hard drive still installed on my
> computer but I keep getting the same error message: Operating system is not
> presently configured to run this application. In Xp The operating system
> would tell you what files were msiing from the regestry and you could add
> them manually to get the program to run without reinstalling it How do you do
> that In Vista?

You'll need to install the applications on the new hard drive 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
WinXP-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.


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