Hdd.

[Rajito]

Hello RZ,
So i want to wipe my HDD, and reinstall windows on it.
But i don't want to lose the installed programs that are on that HDD.
There is another HDD in my pc, is it possible to copy all those programs to my other hdd?
Don't tell me to copy + past the folders, cause that doesn't work.

 

[Rishwin]

No, there's no safe way of saving your programs. If you copy them to your other HDD some may work but most won't because you've wiped the registry entries for them when you formatted.

 

[EliteGM]

The way I do it is keep the installers/iso files/etc of all my programs on my backup hdd. But I presume you don't have all of them any longer.

So then, as Rishwin said, there is no way of keeping your installed programs.

 

[Rajito]

So it isn't possible to copy the registry of the programs to the other hdd (there is windows installed on that hdd too)

 

[Rishwin]

Why would you possibly have 2 different Windows installs on 2 different hard drives... ?

If you get a virus or infection on 1 of them, they both get infected. I don't see the point.

 

[Rajito]

Why would you possibly have 2 different Windows installs on 2 different hard drives... ?

If you get a virus or infection on 1 of them, they both get infected. I don't see the point.

I just got the other hdd for ubuntu ,w7 and backups.
But I only downloaded w7 for "testing it' but I liked xp better so I never used w7, but I was to lazy to delete w7.