Windows Easy Transfer - Transfer To & From Computers

Pumpman2 said:

Hi,

My HP's vista motherboard went bad and I bought a new HP win 7 machine. The old hard drive I mounted as a slave hard drive on the new computer. How do I transfer my files from the old salve Drive (G:) to my new hard drive (C:) IT probably really simple but i have not been able to figure it out yet.

Richard

You say "files".

What files?

If you mean personal data files, just drag them with the mouse to the appropriate location on the new drive.

If you mean installed programs, you must reinstall them from scratch. They cannot be copied over and be expected to run properly.

The files I specifically need are mail messages from windows mail. I know I can get all the pictures and word docs directly but how do I get the mail messages transferred or pointed in the right direction. Thanks for the quick reply!!!

I'd start a fresh thread about your particular issue in the "Browsers and Mail" section of this site.

Offhand, I can tell you that getting mail transferred properly can be problematic. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes you pull your hair out.

I have not checked, but there might be a tutorial on Windows Mail transfer on this site.

My transfer, just ongoing now, is to take ten or more hours. Both computers go to sleep after about fifteen minutes without user interaction. Will that be a problem?

If so, would it be safe to change the sleep settings, bearing in mind WET users shouldn't use either computer during transfer?

If WET stops because a computer goes to sleep, does one have to re-start the whole transfer from the beginning?

Thanks, all - Eric

Thanks, Ztruker! I*'ve been caught with an active but untouched computer going to sleep before, but maybe the design has changed? Anyway, the transfer worked with me pressing the SHIFT key every so often!
Thanks again - Eric

Is it smart enough to do the following?
Assume I save user JOHN and restore to JIM .... does it update JIM's userregistry entries from C:\users\john to c:\users\jim? Also for ini-files etc?

So every reference to a file in JOHN's profile will be updated to a reference in JIM's profile. I can do that manually by search and replace in registry and ini files but automatically would be nice. But sometimes it's in a xml-file or settings.dat (for example utorrent).

So how good is this tool?