Let me start off with a bit of background info: I owe a friend a favor, and since I’m the “tech guy” favors tend to lean in that direction. In any case, her two twin sons are going off to college and as a graduation present she wanted to buy them two Dell desktops (I’m not sure of the exact model but I know that they do not have RAID Arrays and that they both have SATA 320 GB drives). She asked me if I would kindly install their games, programs, and etc onto the two new computers, as well as getting them set up to their liking. Seeing as both would be identical, I wanted to know what measures I would need to take to simply preform the needed operations on one of the computers and copy everything onto the other. How would I go about this?
By the same principle, my friend is going to take over her sons’ old computer (I know it is a difference model from the new ones and that it has a RAID 0 Array). I thought it would also be easier to copy all the data from the previous computer on to the new ones. If this is at all possible, how would I do it (keep in mind I would like to keep all the installed programs intact, if it’s just documents and whatnot then its pointless)?
I believe both computers share the same operating system (XP Home), but I’m not sure. If they do not (for example, XP Home and Media Center), would this be an issue?
Thank you in advance for the help!
