Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "How Do I Transfer My Programs and Data to a New Machine?" video.

  1. Totally agree with Leo here, have done much the same over time. I began this over 30 years ago when I got my first machine, a 386 in 1994. To be frank, not good at backing up (would have save me mucho time later when I had to restore or upgrade). Fortunately, I have a memory like an elephant for many things and have actually lost very little data over time fortunately. I've had hard drives die on me, including on infamous ceramic platter drive from IBM. Platter dust caused sticktion with the heads and thus the drive would not always readily spin up so clue was My Documents would not always stay active. That was in 2001 IIRC. Currently, gathering the parts for a new build and will have to do this again. Best to reinstall all software from scratch, install a fresh copy of your OS as the specs for one PC change how the OS/software installs, and thus will be different on another machine and no real way to guarantee its functionality on the new machine. Now, if you are simply reinstalling on the same machine, but on a new drive, then a full image backup copied over is all you need. Once the new PC is up and running I have GOT to go through all the drives and sort/clean them all out so I can find stuff. Stuff gets moved around, shuttled from one drive to another as far as my data/files go and it's gotten difficult to find stuff. It's been needing to be done for a long time and been putting it off, so this year, not going to put off and just get it done one afternoon.
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