The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 (New HD)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Xion350, Feb 27, 2012.

  1. Xion350

    Xion350 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    17
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    What I really want to do is just mirror most of the harddrive to my new laptop from my desktop. I figure normal files and folders such as all my documents will transfer over no problem. But what about my programs? Am I going to have to go back and install 64-bit versions of Steam and such?

    I'm only really looking to make this transition as smooth and quick as possible because I want to reformat my old harddrive.
     
    Xion350, Feb 27, 2012
    #1
  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

    Reputations:
    7,588
    Messages:
    10,023
    Likes Received:
    1,077
    Trophy Points:
    581
    You should reinstall all of your programs, all of your documents, pictures etc can be transferred easily though. It's not that you have to install 64-bit versions, but windows has to know where the programs are installed and create the registry entries for them. Anyways, most of the programs do not have 64-bit executables.
     
    tijo, Feb 27, 2012
    #2