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Itronix

Itronix

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Well, I got a new laptop. It is a Gateway with a 1.6 ghz dual core, 1 gig of ram, 160 gig hard drive, and a ATI Radeon 64 mb dedicated (up to 256 mb) graphics card. It's awesome! I have one question though. I don't plan to play a whole lot of games on it, but I have one on it and it plays it good. I would like to put Postal 2 (the worst game for your mental sanity) on it, but my cat broke the disk. I have it on my desktop. It does not need a disk to run. Is there any way that I could link this laptop to it and transfer data and install Postal on it? Hopefully with a usb cable ( I have one lying around)? Thanks.
 
Itronix said:
Well, I got a new laptop. It is a Gateway with a 1.6 ghz dual core, 1 gig of ram, 160 gig hard drive, and a ATI Radeon 64 mb dedicated (up to 256 mb) graphics card. It's awesome! I have one question though. I don't plan to play a whole lot of games on it, but I have one on it and it plays it good. I would like to put Postal 2 (the worst game for your mental sanity) on it, but my cat broke the disk. I have it on my desktop. It does not need a disk to run. Is there any way that I could link this laptop to it and transfer data and install Postal on it? Hopefully with a usb cable ( I have one lying around)? Thanks.
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Nope not in a windows environment. Windows does not run (with very seldom exceptions) self contained applications. Thus you would have to extract the registry keys, copy every file over and hope - no pray to the gods that they would work, copy every file over as in every damned .dll, etc. Some applications may out random .dlls is some very strange places, ie \windows\system32 for example.

Basically if you went through all the trouble getting every file in the exact place copied, you still only have a very slight chance of it even working. You will have to go buy another disk. I recommend you start making ISO files of your games so if your gypsy cat decides to go on another disc breaking spree you will have back ups of the original disk.
 
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