Copying miscellaneous My Document files/folders and backing up iE6 Favorites is the easy part. I'm using Windows 98, and have years worth of irreplaceable downloaded programs and update files on my old HDD. I don't have CDs for them, not to mention the time to spend several days or even weeks of time it would take to back up, reinstall and troubleshoot all these programs if I did have the installation CDs. I also want to upgrade the OS on the new disk to Windows 98se. I'd like to maintain the programs and their files/folders on the new drive

Is there some method of moving (or backing up) programs and their folders from one disk to another, short of doing a complete diskcopy, and modifying the registry accordingly? Is there a software utility that automates this process

    ----- Ron Badour wrote: ----
   
    #1.  See the link I provide
    #2   I have done this dozens of times and not a problem.  You just hav
    to ensure the jumper pin is set correctly on the old drive (and whateve
    else is on the ribbon cable with it) and that the BIOS recognizes th
    drive
   
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    Regard
   
    Ron Badour, MS MVP W98 Syste
    Tips:  http://home.satx.rr.com/badou
    Knowledge Base Info
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinf
   
   
    "Bob Hayden" <bobhayden@prodigy.net> wrote in messag
    news:OEPUb.19261$g32.19199@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com..
    > Ron
    >> Thanks for the reassurance...tomorrow is judegement day once I am sur
   
    > have all the Win98 and program disks together
    > Which files and location do I need to copy or transfer over fo
    Outloo
    > Express and how do I go about it
    >> And once again, if I disconnect my current hard drive now until afte
    th
    > new one is installed and up and running and then I re-connect the ol
    one a
    > a slave, I should have no problem accessing all the files that ar
    currentl
    > on it, right
    >> Always nervous time when I could use years of data, pics, scanne
    document
    > and more
    >> Bo
    >>> "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAdddress.com> wrote in messag
    > news:eJU4gbC7DHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl..
    >> You got a plan--that's the way I'd do it.  Once both drives ar
    hooke
    >> up, use Windows Explorer to transfer the data
    >>>> For information on installing W98, go to
    >> http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.htm
    >>>>>> --
    >> Regard
    >>>> Ron Badour, MS MVP W98 Syste
    >> Tips:  http://home.satx.rr.com/badou
    >> Knowledge Base Info
    >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinf
    >>>>>> "Bob Hayden" <bobhayden@prodigy.net> wrote in messag
    >> news:savUb.3916$%p5.3075@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com..
    >>> I've got a Dell PC (P3 800 MHz) with a 30GB HD that is bursting a
    th
    >> seam
    >>> (27.6 GB used) and it is running Win98SE. I have been having a lo
    o
    >> littl
    >>> quirk software problems...mouse locks up on re-boot until I unplu
    an
    >>> re-plug among others
    >>>>>> Because of the problems, I am thinking of putting in a new 80MB H
    >> that
    >>> bought and switching the jumper pins so the new drive is the mai
    an
    >> a
    >>> least temporarily not hooking up the current drive. I would the
    loa
    >> up Wi
    >>> 98SE and all my critical programs, reboot and then hook up the ol
    >> drive a
    >>> the slave to get all the data off of it. Upon completion, I woul
    >> re-forma
    >>> the old drive and use it as a data drive or back-up drive
    >>>>>> Is it a good idea to go about it this way and can I do it i
    >> confidenc
    >>> without backing up the old drive and the gobs of data that I woul
    >> need t
    >>> put on CD? I know I can copy pictures and MP3s and MS Office file
    t
    >> th
    >>> new drive easily, but how easy or hard is it to transfer thing
    lik
    >> Outloo
    >>> Express Mail files, data from my Epson scanner, etc.
    >>>>>> Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
    >>>>>> Bob in RSM, CA