New system OS decisions

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riley454

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I just built a new pc with win7 to replace my 8 year old tired and clogged up old XP system. Being so used to XP for so many years, and only just test driving win7, how can I best adjust to the new OS and keep the look and feel I have been so used to with XP?

Apart from poor performance from old components, part of my decision for a new build was because of all the crap that has filled my old 40Gb HDD that slows things down. Unfortunately after 8 years I'm not sure anymore what is good and what is bad on the old HDD, but I'd like to incorporate a bit of both drives in my new system. How can I work out from my old system what actually is junk and what I might need to transfer to the newly built system?

I've considered dual HDD with separate OSs but I don't want the crap from the old drive contributing to problems on the new machine.

I want the best of both worlds and I'm confused.:confused:
 
After 7 is up and running, put the old 40 gig drive in as a slave, or in a USB Hard Drive Enclosure to retrieve the User Data you wanted to keep.
 
I would run a second hard drive and run Windows if needed and run something like Linux Mint or OPENsuse but that is just my two cents.
 
User0one said:
After 7 is up and running, put the old 40 gig drive in as a slave, or in a USB Hard Drive Enclosure to retrieve the User Data you wanted to keep.
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I was going to transfer stuff I know I need via USB HDD but there's so much junk(including programs .exe files etc) we've accumulated between me, the wife and 2 kids in the last 8 years I'm not sure if there's some things that were important on the old system and how to decide if they are still needed. Some things were patches for corrupted programs on the old XP systemfor example.

Should I just transfer the files/folders/programs that I definitely know I need and keep the old system for a while until I'm sure there's nothing else I need off it?
 
Just have a browse through the old HD and pull off anything that you know you want to keep. Or do a search for all documents (not exe's), all photos/videos etc.

You could always keep the old HD in your new case but just not connected, if you remember you need something off it in future, it's there.
 
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