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Vista Format

Started by dwyatt2g , May 30 2009 10:58 AM

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dwyatt2g

Posted 30 May 2009 - 10:58 AM

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I have two hard drives in my PC. My hard drive with my Vista OS crashed today. I reinstalled Windows on a new hard drive that I purchased (drive C:). I have all my programs on my second hard drive (drive D:) and I need to merge the program files so that they are recognized by my OS on (drive c:), as in the all programs list and the programs/features section of the control panel. Any ideas?

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PedroDaGR8

Posted 30 May 2009 - 02:35 PM

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More than likely impossible. Most programs have loads of settings data and important information written to the registry. You must reinstall the programs to get this information in the registry, otherwise they will not work.