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Wife's computer had bad mother board. In attempt to salvage programs and data, I removed hard drive(IDE) and placed it in a USB enclosure. Is there any way to transfer the programs and data to the hard drive of her new computer and have the programs work? I don't relish having to reinstall all the programs. If not, how do I run her programs from the old drive?
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the new computer and use a function key at boot time to point at that drive instead of the new one. Your hardware has changed with the new motherboard, so would need to boot into the old drive in Safe Mode first and load the new drivers for that operating system use on it.
You can also do this, but still need to do some adjusting.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
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