Files can be transferred but not applications. Any program that has been
"installed" must go through the "install" process all over again.
Steve Ellington N4LQ.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid@verizon.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 7:12 PM
Subject: [TenTec] New Computer Coming
> Ok, not sure this is the best place to ask, but,
> I have a new machine on order from Gateway.
> Old unit is getting close to end of life, and I want
> to replace it before some relay or the disk fails.
> Has happened to me twice in the past -- a few
> years ago, so probably nearing that time again.
>
> Anyway, I also have an external iOmega hard disk
> drive to which I can send everything on the present
> computer -- my N4PY Pegasus/RX-340 program,
> BeaconSee, propagation predictors, Logic 6 logging
> program, and all else, including Norton's System
> Works 2002. My present computer does have
> the earliest of USB ports, and that is what the iOmega
> is connected to.
>
> Now, can I just connect this external drive to an input
> port on the new computer and feed in all my applications?
> The coming new machine has the newer, faster Type 2
> USB ports, so ought to read in the applications on this
> external back-up drive just fine, I hope!
>
> Yes, I know I must install the iOmega software for this
> external drive on the new computer; but would be a big
> problem to re-load all the other applications on the present
> machine -- don't even have most of the software, as the
> programs were downloads from various net sites.
>
> Also, many of my "Favorites" list on the present IE browser
> I am sure have included "cookies" on my drive and various
> passwords are "remembered"; would these also be correctly
> transferred to the new machine?
>
> Bunch of questions, hope this method described will be
> a straight forward way to get the whole new machine up
> and running and correctly set up to move right on from
> where I leave off with the old computer. New unit
> should be out here to Kauai by mid-next week.
>
> 73, Jim KH7M
>
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