Windows Easy Transfer Companion

Is there any way to make the Companion (not the Windows Easy Transfer
itself), but the Companion to work with two internal hard drives?

The motherboard of an XP SP2 computer died, so I had to put the old C: drive
in the new Vista computer. Shows up, everything is great, and have no
desire to actually boot from the XP drive.
But was hoping that I could use the transfer Companion to move applications
etc to the new Vista C: drive.

But Companion will only install on the new Vista drive, and will only scan
that drive for things to move. Obviously does me no good. There is no
option of where to install the Companion or of course would have installed
on the old XP drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tim

Hi,

The Easy Tranfer Companion has to be run from within a working XP
installation in order for it to export the program information. You can't
just point it to the drive that housed it and have it grab the files. Same
goes for any program I know of that can be used to migrate programs. You'd
have to be able to load and run the XP install in order to move programs
this way. Otherwise, you will need to reinstall them from their original
installation media.

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"Destin_FL" <hightidemedia@spamfree.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to make the Companion (not the Windows Easy Transfer
> itself), but the Companion to work with two internal hard drives?
>
> The motherboard of an XP SP2 computer died, so I had to put the old C:
> drive in the new Vista computer. Shows up, everything is great, and have
> no desire to actually boot from the XP drive.
> But was hoping that I could use the transfer Companion to move
> applications etc to the new Vista C: drive.
>
> But Companion will only install on the new Vista drive, and will only scan
> that drive for things to move. Obviously does me no good. There is no
> option of where to install the Companion or of course would have installed
> on the old XP drive.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim

Rick,
Thanks so much for the response..... I was worried that would be the case.
It's no problem, except that it just take days to reinstall everything, I
have to track down licenses, blah blah blah..... you know the drill. UGH.

Tim

Easy Transfer cannot be used to transfer files and settings between two hard
drives in the same computer. you would need to find a way to start Windows
from the XP drive, use EasyTransfer to gather files and settings, then
import them into Vista.

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"Destin_FL" <hightidemedia@spamfree.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:GL3Xi.1066$Gy4.618@newsfe24.lga...
> Is there any way to make the Companion (not the Windows Easy Transfer
> itself), but the Companion to work with two internal hard drives?
>
> The motherboard of an XP SP2 computer died, so I had to put the old C:
> drive in the new Vista computer. Shows up, everything is great, and have
> no desire to actually boot from the XP drive.
> But was hoping that I could use the transfer Companion to move
> applications etc to the new Vista C: drive.
>
> But Companion will only install on the new Vista drive, and will only scan
> that drive for things to move. Obviously does me no good. There is no
> option of where to install the Companion or of course would have installed
> on the old XP drive.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim