Solved Re-purposing an old hard drive

[Senator]

If you're interested in the process, it would be better to start with an image from the laptop.

This is really what my "experiment" was all about. I spent several days building a new system on this machine. The one I'm on now. It was running Vista and now it's running Windows 7. I wanted to see if I could save all that time I spent building the new W7 system, by simply restoring the image I build on the desktop (this machine) to my old laptop that was running Windows XP.

Sounds like it would be difficult and problematic at best. I'm pretty sure there are ways to build transportable Images, but it will be beyond my ability or interest.

Thanks to all who contributed. I can't thank you enough. This is a great forum.

 

[Slartybart]

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Sorry Slartybart, I'm sort of duplicating what you have said, I'm just a lot slower

No need to apologize, your amplification is welcome and your additional information is helpful.

You can't possibly be slower than I am - some posts take 30 minutes for me to write

Bill
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