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| HyperHacker Posts: 4915/5072 |
If you have all that extra space, then why not just copy all of C: to this new partition, reinstall, and copy back the programs' files as necessary?
You might also be able to call the manufacturers for replacement CDs if you have the serial numbers. |
| emcee Posts: 835/867 |
If you payed for the software once and just misplaced the cd, there's nothing wrong with downloading the CD iso with a torrent or filesharing program. |
| BooUrns Posts: 357/450 |
Yes, I've made all the backups and everything. I just want a way to test it out before I wipe out the hard drive. If it didn't work for some reason, we'd be left without a program. I guess I'll test it in a virtual machine. I don't know why I didn't think of that before. |
| Kailieann Posts: 791/808 |
Make a backup of the program's registy entries. It's not that difficult.
And most programs will recreate the registry entries if they're missing, anyways. |
| BooUrns Posts: 356/450 |
*sigh* All right, I'll explain why I want to do this.
I'm thinking of reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything because it's four years old and has really slowed down. (And yes, I have defragmented, checked for spyware, etc.) But there's one problem. There's an expensive piece of software that we lost the install disk for. What I wanted to do was try to transfer all the program's files and registry settings manually onto a clean installation of Windows XP to see if that would work. The program "knows" it is installed on C, so I know it would not work if I transferred everything to an installation of XP that is on drive D. I suppose I could try transferring all the files to a virtual machine, and see if that works. |
| ||bass Posts: 589/594 |
Kai is right. Your copy of XP must be defective because there is absolutely no reason the OS needs to be installed on 'C'.
On a personal note, this whole mess is part of the reason I think drive letters are retarded. |
| Kailieann Posts: 790/808 |
Your copy of XP is defective. I ran XP on drive D: with no C drive whatsoever for over a year. |
| Black Lord + Posts: 264/273 |
Originally posted by FreeDOS + Or better yet, why would you want to have a second copy of WinXP? |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 1222/1312 |
It's probably possible, but why do you *need* to do that? (actually, I wonder why you need to have a second copy of WinXP) |
| BooUrns Posts: 353/450 |
My family's computer has one partition with Windows XP installed on it. For reasons I'd rather not go into, I need to create another partition and install another copy of XP on it. I would assume that Windows would assign the letter D: to the new partition. However, the new copy of XP *needs* to see itself as being installed on drive C:.
So what I want is to be able to dual-boot two copies of XP, with both of them "thinking" they are installed on C:. Is this even possible? |
