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A friend of mine asked me to propose him a way to transfer an old software which he uses in a windows 2000 machine to a new system.
I can think of 2 methods:
- Making an image from his windows 2000 system and make a copy of the whole system on a new system. but I'm not sure if this works?
- Searching for the library dependencies of the software and move all the binaries and libraries to the new system.
I'm not sure which one to choose.
I couldn't add the win2000 tags. sorry for the bad tagging. – Masoud – 2015-02-28T18:36:52.723
Depends on the software, some older software ran from the program folder with few dependencies, it just depends, try copying the program folder to the new system and run the software, see if it throws errors and what they are. – Moab – 2015-02-28T19:00:32.903
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Best way I think will be to convert the old machine to a Virtual Machine and then run this inside the new machine. Some info on how to do this at http://superuser.com/questions/346959/converting-a-windows-2000-physical-machine-to-a-virtual-machine
– gogoud – 2015-02-28T19:08:32.790If you mean moving to another existing win2000 machine, copy program folder, look for registry entries (both under hklm/software and hkcu/software). If you mean getting rid of the old hardware, convert it to a virtual machine – Dan – 2015-02-28T19:09:50.990