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Hello all, new guy here. First post woohoo!

Naturally I have a question too.

I was given an old PC I think it is a first gen Pentium, pretty bare system.
It has a 2 GB hard drive, a DVD, very little ram...

The kicker is that it has some very expensive software on it that uses the
DVD for a data disk. Mitchell On Demand automotive software.

It is also running Windows 98 SE and for now I haven't been able to get a
USB port to work on it, I have a PCI card ordered to add that.

To thicken the plot... I can't re-install the software, don't ask, not gonna happen.

Now for the question, or a kind of thinking out loud discussion.

I would like to move this to a newer machine...

I was thinking about backing up the complete hard drive to a usb jump drive.
Copy it to another machine, then re-install Windows 98 SE to the new machine.

I am wondering if it would work or is it a big waste of time?

Can anyone suggest a way for me to keep this software running and get it
to a newer platform??

Thanks in advance for your time. Great Forum you guys have built here.

-Sik

Hi there, and welcome to this forum!!!

Yes its possible to move all the data on a hard drive to another drive, but you will have to put both hard drives in the same pc. To move all the data you can use these programs:

http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...ImagerXP.shtml

Thanks to joe5

Please post any progress,

Greetz,

RubenTC

Are there some hidden files or something I can't get from a regular
copy to jump drive that those utilities will get?

I am scared at the thought of disturbing the hard drive hehe

It does make more sense to do it that way tho...

Another thing I was wondering about is building a mini PC
to run right from the USB drive, which is really just a 2GB SD disk
in a USB reader.

Is it possible to get a Windows PC running from an SD disk??