bloodybold
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Hello to all long time since posting for help (Win Vista days).
Recently my MOBO died and the knowledgeable tech at micro center suggested I upgrade to Win 8 in the process as he felt Vista OS would provide to many headaches with all the new hardware.
With that being said I completed the rebuild and loaded the OS to a new WD Caviar 1TB that I had laying around and left my VelociRaptor with Vista Ultimate unplugged. The install went flawless except for when I came back to it this morning it woke from sleep with the touch of the mouse but no pointer or keyboard, resynced Bluetooth and all came back online, loaded updated version of software for logitech and will see if this fixes the issue.
What I need help with are suggestion as to how to best copy over programs and folders/files from the vista drive which is now running, I've tried copying a program folder to the Win 8 program folder and am not able to get the program to launch. Any suggestions or thread reads which cam help me out?
Next, when all the usable info has been retrieved from the Veloci I would like to install the Win 8 to that and set that as the boot due to its speed. I am thinking I could just clone the present HDD to it and it will overwrite the old OS this way I don't have to spend all the time to load it up from scratch. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as well.
Thanks Guys glad to see a lot of the members from the old site here as I trust and respect your advice.
Robb
Recently my MOBO died and the knowledgeable tech at micro center suggested I upgrade to Win 8 in the process as he felt Vista OS would provide to many headaches with all the new hardware.
With that being said I completed the rebuild and loaded the OS to a new WD Caviar 1TB that I had laying around and left my VelociRaptor with Vista Ultimate unplugged. The install went flawless except for when I came back to it this morning it woke from sleep with the touch of the mouse but no pointer or keyboard, resynced Bluetooth and all came back online, loaded updated version of software for logitech and will see if this fixes the issue.
What I need help with are suggestion as to how to best copy over programs and folders/files from the vista drive which is now running, I've tried copying a program folder to the Win 8 program folder and am not able to get the program to launch. Any suggestions or thread reads which cam help me out?
Next, when all the usable info has been retrieved from the Veloci I would like to install the Win 8 to that and set that as the boot due to its speed. I am thinking I could just clone the present HDD to it and it will overwrite the old OS this way I don't have to spend all the time to load it up from scratch. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as well.
Thanks Guys glad to see a lot of the members from the old site here as I trust and respect your advice.
Robb
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win Pro 8 64Bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self Build
- CPU
- i7-4770K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H
- Memory
- BALLISTIX 16GB DDR3-1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- HIS IceQ4 RADEON HD 4850
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