I agree, reinstall all software, copy only data files from the old
machine.
How to move the data files over? CD-RW would be the best but in
the absence of a CD burner or Zip drive, you can use a direct
serial port connect between the 2 machines. Alternatively, if you
don't mind doing a little hardware disk swapping temporally
install the hard drive from your old machine in the new one as a
second drive and just copy the files to your new drive.
73, Rich - W3ZJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Darack, Zev
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:47 AM
> To: 'dj3iw@t-online.de'; Writelog Reflector (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Win98->Win XP?
>
>
> I recommend installing everything from scratch! The
> differences in hardware
> and operating system are taken into account during the
> installation process
> and by skipping that on such a different machine you
> will be compromising
> the installation.
>
> Thank you,
> Zev Darack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dj3iw@t-online.de [mailto:dj3iw@t-online.de]
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:39 AM
> To: WriteLog; RTTY
> Subject: [WriteLog] Win98->Win XP?
>
> Hello friends!
>
> A new fast computer is about to take over from my old
> Pentium 200MMX.
> The new one will run Windows XP home. I am looking for
> an easy and
> fast method to transfer my (mainly ham-) software from
> the WIN98 machine
> to the new one. I want to avoid installing everything
> from scratch.
> What can the gurus recommend?
>
> 73 de Goetz
> dj3iw@t-online.de
>
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