Building comp. Imaging drive

Remember how im building a new comp and i need to format my windows drive to get the new mobo working well i have a idea for my second drive

my new comp will have 2 drives also

instead of having to blank drives i want to image one of my drives i have now so after i install winxp on one of the new drives for my comp i can just install the image on the other one without installing all the games again

my question is i know some games/programs use the registry to be able to play when you image a drive does it copy EVERYTHING registries, small little files, etc... if so would i just be able to put a image of my other drive on a new hardrive and all my games, stuff should work?

why go through the trouble of making the image...just use a new hard drive for windows, and put the old hard drive into your new computer and play your games off of that.

Drec said:

why go through the trouble of making the image...just use a new hard drive for windows, and put the old hard drive into your new computer and play your games off of that.

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i want my other comp to still have the games too.

and if i put the other drive into my comp wont i need to format it since it will be a new drive in a new comp?

Zatrix said:

i want my other comp to still have the games too.

and if i put the other drive into my comp wont i need to format it since it will be a new drive in a new comp?

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Not if your not booting off of the drive.