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MoeWado
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 04:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey everyone,

I have a complicated situation. I have two laptops; one old with vista installed and one new with windows 7 installed. I have allll of my important programs and such on the old vista hdd and on the new windows7 one I have important software installed on it as well. My new hdd has 2 partitions (Recovery and C drive) and so does the old vista hdd (Recovery and C drive). I was wondering if it is possible to transfer both partitions from my new windows7 hdd onto my old vista hdd keeping intact all my programs and windows as well. And once that is done, I want to be able to plug in the old vista hdd with the transfered info from the new windows7 hdd into my new laptop that was running the windows7 hdd and be able to dual boot both operating systems.

The old vista hdd is a 500gb WD Scorpio Blue hdd that i bought.
The new windows 7 hdd is a 320gb Toshiba hdd that came with my Sony Vaio.
And yes I do have a USB 2.5 sata enclosure.

I hope yall understood that and if there is anymore info you need plz let me know so I can provide it.
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ddp
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 15:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
can't do it as windows will barf as to much of a hardware change.
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MoeWado
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 16:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok, but is it possible to install a fresh copy of windows vista on a new partition on the new windows7 hdd, then transfer my stuff from the old vista hdd onto that partition? Or something like that??
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ddp
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 16:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i don't think you can put vista after win7. are all your programs installed or on discs\hard drive?
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MoeWado
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 17:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i can dual boot my vista and windows 7 on my new hdd, but i dont know how to transfer the old vista files and programs onto the new hdd...
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ddp
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 18:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
programs have to be re-installed. files can be copied onto other laptop via usb flashdrive, cd\dvd or external hd.
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MoeWado
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_ 		20. January 2011 @ 18:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ive read that there are cloning softwares that can copy everything including programs ...??
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pcrepair
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_ 		25. January 2011 @ 03:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
takes a couple of days to copy the darn stuff over quicker to reinstall and the software is not cheap either
program is called pcmover
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