Can I get the installed software to crossover?

[letterman]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:25:04 -0400, "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote:

>As Blanton was saying in another thread, W2K doesn't care what drive
>letter it has. Just to be careful, maybe use Win2K's RegEdit or
>equivalent to change any C:\ to D:\ in the Registry. Have a look inside
>any .ini's maybe as well. Or get something like COA2 to do it for you. I
>posted something about that in a different thread.

I wanted to give that COA2 a try and found it's one of those paid
downloads from PC Magazine. I guess they do that for all their
downloads now. Sounds like something that rag would do.

Does anyone know where I might get a free copy of it? I googled it
and could not find anything except discussions and dead links.

If not, is there another similar program?

I dont know if I need this for Win2000, but I used to put specific
types of files (such as games and graphic editing software) on D:
because at one time drive C: was nearly filled. Now I'd like to keep
D: as my Win2K drive and move all those programs to C:

I would think that there are other softwares of that type. Who needs
PC Mag anyhow.

[pcr]

letterman@invalid.com wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:25:04 -0400, "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>>As Blanton was saying in another thread, W2K doesn't care what drive
>>letter it has. Just to be careful, maybe use Win2K's RegEdit or
>>equivalent to change any C:\ to D:\ in the Registry. Have a look
>>inside any .ini's maybe as well. Or get something like COA2 to do it
>>for you. I posted something about that in a different thread.
>
> I wanted to give that COA2 a try and found it's one of those paid
> downloads from PC Magazine. I guess they do that for all their
> downloads now. Sounds like something that rag would do.

Lucky me got a bunch of them before they started doing that. It's got
lots & lots of good stuff with great documentation that may well be
worth the cost of a subscription. Here's a site someone else once posted
that may have some of them for free, but I didn't see COA2 there...
http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/indexoldies.html

> Does anyone know where I might get a free copy of it? I googled it
> and could not find anything except discussions and dead links.
>
> If not, is there another similar program?

You can get by with RegEdit & Find, Containing Text, in a crunch, as I
posted elsewhere. Look inside your .ini's & .lnk's especially...

(1) "START, Find, F/F"
(2) Named............... *.ini, *.lnk
(3) Containing text... E:\
(presuming it originally was E:\.)

> I dont know if I need this for Win2000, but I used to put specific
> types of files (such as games and graphic editing software) on D:
> because at one time drive C: was nearly filled. Now I'd like to keep
> D: as my Win2K drive and move all those programs to C:
>
> I would think that there are other softwares of that type. Who needs
> PC Mag anyhow.

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Naturally, you will not sue,
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PCR
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[pcr]

PCR wrote:
> letterman@invalid.com wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:45:48 -0400, "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote:
>>
....snip
>> Although I really would like to transfer the original Win2k, I dont
>> think it would work right because it was on C:, and now has to be on
>> D: Plus the original was NTFS and I have Fat32. The reason I'd like
>> to copy it, is because it came with this computer and came with a
>> bunch of other software, some I'd like to use, especially the Pctools
>> Antivirus and a few graphic programs. I did copy all the stuff from
>> program files/folders to my program files but most of the stuff wont
>> work. I know it's registry and probably some DLLs and other stuff in
>> the Windows dir. If I knew which DLLs, I could copy them, but it's
>> the registry stuff that is the problem.
>
> I would be sorely tempted to delete all the files of the FAT32 W2K
> partition & copy all the files of the NTFS partition into it. (Then,
> maybe delete any boot files -- like the Boot.ini -- from that
> partition -- IF they interfere with the ones in your Win98 partition.
> But I'm not sure that they would interfere.) If this fails to work,
> you can always get back to where you were by repeating your initial
> effort.
>
> As Blanton was saying in another thread, W2K doesn't care what drive
> letter it has. Just to be careful, maybe use Win2K's RegEdit or
> equivalent to change any C:\ to D:\ in the Registry. Have a look
> inside any .ini's maybe as well. Or get something like COA2 to do it
> for you. I posted something about that in a different thread.
>
> Alternatively, delete the FAT32 W2K partition & replace it with the
> NTFS partition. HOWEVER...
>
> (a) You may need to shrink it first to fit.
> (b) Win98 will not be able to see NTFS.
> It will be invisible when you boot Win98!

I just want to add, if you want to do this, best have a look at...

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=106
How to Convert an NTFS Partition to FAT/FAT32 (Windows 2000/XP)

....if you think you might have any "alternate data stream (ADS)
information" on that NTFS partition. (I never heard of such a thing,
myself!)

>> When I got the computer I never really even used the installation. I
>> just put in my win98 harddrive from my old computer, installed a few
>> drivers for this system, and went about my work. So that original is
>> a clean install, aside from playing with it a little and changing
>> some desktop settings and wallpapers.
>>
>>

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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
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