transfering files question

[Tangerine]

I am transfering some things from an old hard drive to my new computer. I set the old one up as a slave, and everything is working fiine.
My question is, is it allright to tranfer whole programs that were already installed on the old hard drive? Or should I reinstall them fresh onto the new drive. I kept everything neat, whenever I installed a program on the old drive, I made a seperate folder for it, and installed all the files in it, so I could just drag the folder over to the new drive, it looks like.

Thanks for any help

 

[flyfish]

No, most of the time you can't just move the program over. It won't hurt to try but, you most likely have to reinstall your proggies.

 

[Tangerine]

ok thanks, thats what i kind of thought, but was looking for shortcuts

 

[LanEvoVI]

If you have Partition Magic, it has a nice utility that will change all the drive references for you if you want.