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to: Gary Britt
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-01-29 14:19:08
subject: Re: System migration

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Irrelevant as to the version on each side.  They claim that it will also
work with a Win98 move to XP.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45be55bc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Did you have OEM or Retail licenses for the OS on the old machine?  Or is
> this irrelevant because your new machine already had an OS installed and
> PC Mover just moved OS settings and Apps and App settings?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> Elsewhere in the thread.
>>
>> Laplink PCMover.
>>
>> JUST used it to move from my old A21p, where the SIMM socket died,and
>> won't properly work with 2 chips in place, to a newer A31 (yea, still not
>> totally new).
>>
>> This laptop has a 4 partition HD, C, D, E, G, with close to 60 gig of
>> "stuff" on it.  I pre-partitioned the target machine,
the A31, with the
>> same partition structure, and had the OS installed on E, like it was on
>> the old one.
>>
>> Ran PCMover, it took, oh 6 hours or so to move everything, but it moved
>> the entire machine, apps, etc.  I think I had to re-enter 1 or two serial
>> numbers, but NOT re-install the apps.
>>
>> It even auto disables programs set to auto start, and gives you a startup
>> option program where you can say yes/no to each, and it can do that on
>> every boot until you tell it not to do that anymore.
>>

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