transfer notebook hard drive to new desktop

[Justtaint]

A friend is transitioning from his old laptop back to a new desktop PC and would like to keep all his programs and files as they were on the laptop. I don't know which OS the laptop is currently running, but its probably not XP, the desktop will run XP pro.

Truly the only necessary program is QuickBooks, which I supposed could be installed on the new PC and the files backed up to their respective folders from the laptop, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to "ghost" the notebook hard drive.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bolsen]

well, while I wouldn't recommend it, you can buy drive converters. The converter will convert from a IDE cable down to the lappie drive. I'd stay away from this, only because laptop drives are so slow. If anything, use it for recovery.

Otherwise, install all the progs on the new desktop, then transfer data.

 

[Justtaint]

That's what I thought I'd have to do, but I was hoping there was some easy way I was overlooking.

 

[bolsen]

Well the red neck way would be just boot the laptop drive off the new pc Or literally ghost the partition to the new drive!

Do it right, do it right the first time :beer: