Hello, I am getting a new and better computer. I plan on moving the "C" drive from my old computer to my new computer. Will this mean that Poser5 will be installed on my new computer or do I go thru the installation process again? (It didn't run that smoothly when I first got Poser5 because I ended up having to send them my Poser4 number and my Poser5 number and then they send me the unlock key) I plan on deleting Poser from my old computer (both 4 and 5) because my wife is getting the old computer and believe it or not, she is not interested in having Poser on the computer. I was wondering how other people have handled this. Thanks, Bill

My personal opinion would be to re-install it anyway. It is not often we get to start over with a clean machine...so just back up the runtime and start with everything fresh. But this is just the opinion of a guy who has to reformat his own computer this weekend (galdernfricken backdoor viruses..rant..rave..mamble)

Safer to clear the hard drive and start everything a-fresh. Cheers

It might also be that you new HD is a generation faster. Maybe ATA133 instead of ATA100 if your using IDE discs. If so I would at least myself prefere the new and faster disk as my system disk.

The updates (think up to SR2.1) for P5 makes it so that you do not need to get an unlock. I bought new machine also with newer-faster-larger harddrive then did install, did all updates (both for machine and P5) and was able to begin working with no problem on new machine.

I have p5 on my data drive which is a slaved drive. Recently, I installed a new and larger data drive and formatted it then copied all my data from the old one from within windows (including my P5 directory). Then I ditched the old data drive. Worked just fine. P5 runs like normal. However, if you are swapping your C drive, then there are registry issues. you can try it but don't format your old drive until you know its working.

I've done this swap as well. BTW it won't work. Your windows probably won't boot on the new machine and you'll have to reinstall the OS. I upgraded my motherboard from a asus s333 to v333 with a faster processor and 133 ram. My c drive wouldn't boot on this new board with my old operating system from the old board. P5 with the latest patch doesn't care where it runs. I can run it off my back up drive on another machine or off this new system. Plus, if you install Zone Alarm you can tell Zone Alarm to prevent P5 from even going to the net to look up multiple copies so you can run two versions at the same time.

If you are running Win XP and you swap the drive to a new computer and you get the bluescreen error because of hardware incompatiblilty issues, all you have to do is run the repair utility that comes on the cd and it will fix it. I have done this several times. Works like a charm and all programs and registry settings remain in tact. ONLY WORKS ON XP though. Not Win 2K.

Thanks for everyone's help. I think I will try to reinstall everything. My problems is on things like PSP7, I didn't keep the .exe file which I got when I bought it. Still have the key to unlock it. I guess I will go thru the burning to Cd's. I had seen a help thing that says that you can use cables between your computer to move things with Windows XP. I have WindowsME. If anybody is still reading this thread, I have always used CD-RW to burn my files to move. Can you just use CD-R. I know it is a stupid question, but CD-RW's are getting harder to find at a good price. Bill

Yes, you can use CD-Rs The CDRWs just allow you to re-write to them. Once you copy the files to the CD-R that's it.. Yo uwill have to use a new one for the next set of files once the CD-R is filled.