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Originally Posted by Lara
Thanks Jo.
New computer for me, but it's my daughter's old one so no warranty left on that. How did you build the case to do that? Do you mean a tower?
I have a tower but I need to get the drive out of that and was just going to buy a $30 case that fits just the hard drive and that just would plug into laptop via usb.
I need to copy some of my files and a couple of programmes across that I haven't got on this setup but because I'm on a pre-paid wireless set up it costs me heaps per megabyte to download programmes off the net.
Otherwise this computer now is working great. I believe that 'easy ide' I mentioned allows me to choose what I want and then I'll wipe it clean and use for portable storage. The case I mean is not the tower, it's only as large as the actual hard drive itself.
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I may be wrong, but I don’t think you can copy actual programs from one windows installation to another. When you install a new program, it makes changes to the system registry and it also puts certain files into the applications folder and other folders in order for the program to work. You will probably have to reinstall the program all together. You could copy the registry key for the program if you can find it and put that in the registry on the other computer but you would have to copy all the other files associated with the program from all the different folders and place them in the same folders on the other computer. This would take a long time to complete and if you miss just one file, the program probably won't work.