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Installation question
I'm posting on behalf of my sister. Her hard drive was giving her problems, and I've shown her a thing or two about computers in the past so she felt confident in buying a new one, installing it, and putting windows 7 on it herself. The drive works fine, but it's spammed and virused to heck and back. I can tackle that, but I've been on her to upgrade to 7 for awhile, and she finally did. The main issue we're having now is the path targets for her programs on her old hard drive (which ran/runs xp). The new drive now has an activated copy of 7 home premium 64-bit on it (drive C). I'm pretty sure the problem is that her old programs on the old drive (now drive E) are looking for their .exe files on the new hard drive because it's now C:.
Normally, what I'd do is clone the drive and slap it on the new one, then upgrade xp to 7. I'm a bit afraid to wipe out the activated copy of 7 now for fear of invalidating the product key and being out another $100+ (whatever she paid). She purchased a full version, not an upgrade. What's the easiest way to get her programs on the old drive (drive E) to run now without manually redirecting or reinstalling everything? I've tackled this problem before for one of my old computers, but it's been awhile (first day of vista). I want to say Acronis was able to fix all this for me, but I'm not as into computers as I once was.
I'm sure this has been covered before, so if there's already a tutorial or a post covering this I apologize. Googling hasn't given me anything.
Thanks!