Hello janel!

03 May 03 09:05, you wrote to Ellen K:

 >> OK, hardware-challenged Ellen here:
 >>
 >> I want them to give me a better box here.  Is it possible to clone
 >> over
 j> exactly
 >> what's on this one if the new box has a faster chip and a bigger hard
 >> drive,
 j> or
 >> do I hafta reinstall and reconfigure everything from scratch?
 >> Currently have W2Ksp3 and new box would also.
 >>

 j> Probably.  I've been doing it with ThinkPads for years.

Um er..

Not necessarily.

If she is talking installed programs and settings.. (??????)

Norton Ghost, Drive Image, or PC Relocator

Can be used to clone the original system drive onto the new system drive
which she says is also larger in capacity.

She will then have to do a repair/reinstall of Win2k over that setup as to
accomodate the newer hardware (CPU/Mainboard and such) as the registry
would be expecting the old hardware, then she simply re-applies all the
service packs and hot/quick fixes. When she finishes this up, everything,
her installed programs and settings will remain intact. She may have to do
some tweaking of her programs if they were accessing a particular piece of
hardware, like for example a FAX program that was using the modem on COM1,
but the modem is now on COM2, that sort of thing.

==
Ross
Official Fidonet Region 18 Home Page: http://www.region18.info
BBS: http://www.the-estar.com:8080 - telnet://the-estar.com
ross{at}easternstar.info | ICQ: 5305939 | Blog: http://www.iblog.us
... My couch potato routine honed to perfection
--- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-21006