To add to what Vanthus says about using an external housing, you may find it just as easy to temporarily install the drive from the old PC and copy off the personal data to your user folder - either way is fine. Some software will even refuse to work on two PCs as it "phones home" whenever it is run. Ignoring the 32/64 bit issue, you could end up spending more time dealing with problems than it would to get a clean installation.Īlso, it's not just Windows that is licenced to a single machine - most commercial software is also single user licenced so running it on both computers would be the same as downloading pirated copies. It performes well, obviously a time saver (that's the main point for us). At 20 per migration it's worth it for smaller stuff as well, we just don't bother with manual. Even if you will be using a version of Windows 7 that includes XP, you may struggle if you just copy the old installation because the base hardware will be different right down to the chipset. We have slowly gravitated to pretty much just using Zinstall for everything, over the last year. Don't forget that if the XP on the old machine is an OEM version, it can't be used on another PC even if the old one is scrapped - it's tied to the hardware on which it was originally installed- and it certainly can't be used on two PC's.
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