Legit Reviews

Ok so I would like to make a file and settings transfer wizard disk using a data DVD or a cd rather than the floppy but it doesn't want to give me that option. All I really want to do is to use the Windows XP wizard to transfer my settings (bookmarked web pages,e-mail files and addresses, pictures,etc.) from an old drive that has a bad Windows XP file to a new drive that has a clean Windows install on it. IF I can do this with a Master/ slave setup that would be preferable but I can still set the old drive as the boot and get a disk off of it.

I know I can just transfer what I need without the wizard but as often as I seem to have to do this I want a faster way and there are some docs on my system that I may not even know are there so my own fear of messing something in a manual transfer makes it where I never feel safe erasing the old drive.

so no one knows anything about this??

I've never messed with it, but I'm looking it at the moment.

Why don't you hook up both drives, with your old one as the boot drive, and then have it save to your other drive? Then you should be able to just load the settings and files from that drive.

I may be looking at this the wrong way.

It also looks like you might be able to save it to say a flash drive, and a 30 dollar 2-4 gig flash drive might be a good investment if you don't have one.

I dont know of a way to use the wizard to put the files on a CD/DVD.

as for transferring files, I still do it the manual way. I just leave the old drive alone for a couple days to go through my sensitive files to make sure they are all there. For 90% of the My Doc files (favorites, email, ect.) if you grab the whole documents and settings folder you wont miss anything for all the users on the machine.

as for the other 10%, thats the stuff that will usually end up in a folder outside the my docs, save game profiles, any thing that you save outside of your desktop/my docs folder.

for this reason I keep all my saved stuff on a second drive, this way when I have to reformat I just back up the email and web fav's and then wipe the OS. the pictures and stuff are snug as a bug on the other drive.