Once you do a clean install, any program that you had on a previous installation 
would have to be reinstalled, no way around it.  The only way you could have gotten 
around that was to image your drive before all your problems arose.  That way all 
you had to do was, transfer the image back on to the old drive or the new bigger 
drive.







On Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 6:39 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote:

>

>Bob, thank you I understand, but what about the 80 gigas. of programs and files 
I 

>have on my computer If I  install Windows first, and then copy the rest of my existing 

>HD on to my new one, will they be recognized by Windows or will I have to reinstall 

>them? There are many  cad programs that were downloaded directly and the firms are 

>no longer in existence. Now I manage with a little maneuvering to start Windows 
and 

>log on to the internet but most of the facilities are missing. For instance I cannot 

>play music through the cd player.. or at all. But I still want to know the reason 

>the Windows installation fails in the last few minutes when it is setting up the 

>hard ware?

>

> 

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