On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:39 PM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:11 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> You can use the old drive as a slave, but any programs you want on the >>>> new machine will need to be reinstalled, most software cannot simply >>>> be copied over (One place where Mac's are clearly better than PC's). >>>> If you don't have install media for them, you'll be out of luck. >>>> >>>> -Adam >>> >>> When i had the HD upgraded in this machine in 2006 i think it was, i >>> mentioned to the repair person(it was a Good Guys computer place in >>> town, now out of business) is there any way i can get what is on the >>> current drive loaded to the new one. He said he could "map" the >>> contents to the new drive. >>> When i picked up the computer, the new HD was installed and all of my >>> files, programs etc were on the new drive and all worked fine. >>> >>> Dave >> >> You can do that when swapping a new drive into an existing PC since >> all the drivers installed are correct and the new drive will boot with >> the old OS install. A completely new PC really needs a fresh OS >> installation to work correctly since it'[s a different set of drivers. >> >> -Adam > > Oh ok, was not aware of that. I guess it would make no sense to keep > the programs on what would be the slave drive and try and run them > from there. > Probably defeating the purpose of a new computer eh. > > I still have my PS 6 disk, which i hope will work with windows 7, and > my LR disks, but not my CS2 disk. Liz had a clean out day last year > and a lot of boxes went out in the garbage. Liz never looks inside to > see if anything is in them. > > Dave
If you have your serial numbers for CS2, installers can be found online. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
