Transferring data to new PC

[Thorin]

Good news Richard, the DVD drive is a SATA connected drive, the bad news is that the motherboard doesn't have ANY IDE connectors at all !!

Still I suppose I could buy a PCI card with an IDE adapter built in, I've just seen one for £17.50

 

[SydneyGeek]

Denis also runs Office 2007. Whilst I find Excel 2007 and xl2003 co-exist happily, Access 2003 and Access 2007 are a different kettle of fish (my Access 2003 is not a happy bunny any more, altho the 2007 one seems to work without problem) - I believe this is why Denis uses the virtual PC environment.

Yep -- spot on. I also had hassles with Word conflicting (I think that's because the 2 versions of Outlook don't get on, and they like to use Word as the default editor). This way I can have 2 full installations without conflicts. I guess the other way is to go dual-boot, but I find it useful to be able to toggle between the environments.

Denis

 

[Thorin]

I must admit, I would prefer to "toggle" between the different environmants too, re-booting each time would prove a real pain.

I am right in assuming that it wouldn't matter if the disk file systems are different, as in my old disk drives are formatted as FAT, whilst I may have the Vista as NTFS, not for the Virtual PC, but in general ?

 

[SydneyGeek]

I think so, but you'd be best to check some of the Vista documentation.

I'm pretty sure that most external drives are formatted as FAT32 and I have had no problems with 2 different ones. My internal SATA drive is NTFS.

Denis

 

[sailepaty]

One issue you could have with the external drive formatted as FAT32 is to transfer files above 1GB. Is not a space problem is the limited size accepted by transfer on the external drives. To fix this you have to delete the partition of the external drive, create a new one and format it as NTFS.

Regards