AggieMike88
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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
I am considering building a new supercharged hotrod of a workstation with lots of monitors, blazing solid state hard drive, maxed out RAM, and killer CPU/GPU. I'm getting to a point where I could use the extra speed and screen real estate.
Fortunately, lots of good resources out there to help identify components and "how to's" to assemble everything.
My question is about all the applications and such I have on my existing hard drive. Some items (such as my yard management client) aren't "product keyed" and I can easily install that. Some others (like Quickbooks) are easily downloaded from the internet source and I have the "keys" to activate them.
But I have other things like MS Office and a few others that I don't know where their product keys went to.
What is the simplest solution to keep access to both the programs/apps and the files that are on the current primary hard drive?
The end result is that I want the new SSD to be the primary bootable drive, have some of the frequently used items on there, and still have access to the current programs and files on my existing drive. All without the anguish and grief and cost of buying fresh copies of software and transferring file after file to the new drive.
Fortunately, lots of good resources out there to help identify components and "how to's" to assemble everything.
My question is about all the applications and such I have on my existing hard drive. Some items (such as my yard management client) aren't "product keyed" and I can easily install that. Some others (like Quickbooks) are easily downloaded from the internet source and I have the "keys" to activate them.
But I have other things like MS Office and a few others that I don't know where their product keys went to.
What is the simplest solution to keep access to both the programs/apps and the files that are on the current primary hard drive?
The end result is that I want the new SSD to be the primary bootable drive, have some of the frequently used items on there, and still have access to the current programs and files on my existing drive. All without the anguish and grief and cost of buying fresh copies of software and transferring file after file to the new drive.