Just wondering if this is possible without having to install windows on the second drive first.
Basically my system is getting pretty old, and I am building a new system, and rather than plopping my old HD's in there I just want to copy everything from the old HD's onto one new one, and putting these drives in storage as backups.
My main concern is that after I format the new drive and begin to copy the drive with windows running on it that I will be getting a lot of "file in use:cannot copy" type of errors. I am thinking it may be best to install windows on my new drive, along with all the new drivers and such, then install my old drive as the D: drive, and copy that way, copying everything but windows.
However I am concerned if I do it that way I will lose a lot of registry entries/activations for a lot of my programs (which I no longer have codes for) but I will also be putting stuff into windows that I will no longer need, as the system will be all different hardware. What about copying everything but the Driver Cache folder in windows?
Will any of this work? Or is there a better/possibly easier way to do this?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
