Transferring Program and Program Files

[Tkennedy1993]

Hey Everyone,

I have a family friend that uses an old Windows 98 machine. I am replacing his system with a Pentium 4 machine running Windows 98 because his current machine is starting to crash and he is just wanting to replace it. However, he uses a certain software that is ran using MS DOS. I am wanting to pretty much move that program and all of his files over to his new system. What would be the best way of transferring this information over? Being that the software is old and isn't supported anymore I wouldn't be able to find the exe to install the software onto his new computer.

 

[BadAsAl]

I would just clone the drives using Clonezilla. Pull the drive from the old machine, attach it to new computer using USB enclosure or install it in the new computer as a second drive, then boot with Clonezilla CD and clone the old to new. New machine will be exactly the same as the old one. Only issue you may run into is the new computer will have different hardware and you will probably need to find drivers for it after you do this.

 

[captaincharisma]

you can try copying the folder the program over but but i would not be able to guarantee it will work. this is usully the case for programs installed in windows but im not sure if it is the same if it was a program installed in DOS

 

[Tkennedy1993]

I would just clone the drives using Clonezilla. Pull the drive from the old machine, attach it to new computer using USB enclosure or install it in the new computer as a second drive, then boot with Clonezilla CD and clone the old to new. New machine will be exactly the same as the old one. Only issue you may run into is the new computer will have different hardware and you will probably need to find drivers for it after you do this.

This was my initial idea. However, I wanted to check if there was any other way of doing this.
Thank you!

 

[Corwin65]

Let your friend know that at some point he will have problems trying to run DOS programs and that it's in his best interest to plan on migrating to something current.

 

[Tkennedy1993]

Let your friend know that at some point he will have problems trying to run DOS programs and that it's in his best interest to plan on migrating to something current.

He is an 80 year old man and has started to learn the newer software. However, he isn't really fond of change and he hasn't had the time to stop and teach his self the new software quite yet. So he is just wanting something newer than his current AMD Durion CPU and a little more RAM.

 

[ss202sl]

Cloning sounds good, but is the hardware the same? Can you get drivers? Also if the system is crashing, are the crashes software related or hardware related? If they're software related, then cloning it will just move the problems to a new machine.

 

[ragnar-gd]

If the software is run in MS-DOS-mode, just copying the directory (to the same location on C might just work.
What IS that software, btw?