Vegas install question

stepfour wrote on 11/27/2004, 7:22 AM

I just cloned my hard disk to a new disk to increase space. Now that I copied them to a new drive, VV3, and V4 no longer run. I get error saying "program not properly installed." I guess they sense they have been moved and are now crippled for security reasons.

Will this will force me to do an uninstall, directory delete, reinstall and re-register thing on both programs, or does anyone know if I can fix this without doing all that? Also, for V4, if a reinstall is necessary, should I also uninstall and reinstall all the Microsoft .net framework stuff? Thanks for any help.

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nickle wrote on 11/27/2004, 11:02 AM

Cloning the drive makes it exactly the same and if it was the only drive all would work.

As I mentioned in your other post, adding a second drive changes the drive letters.

That is the only thing that is different, but programs will have the wrong paths.

It all depends on how you partitioned your old drive (which drive letters belong to which partition)

Then go into Disk Management and set them to what they were.

Vegas shouldn't be "sensing" anything other than a drive letter change.

stepfour wrote on 11/27/2004, 8:09 PM

I hooked the new drive in with the old using cable-select jumper position, then booted with the Maxtor utility, which allowed me to copy everything from the current c:\ to the new drive. Then I shut down and put the new drive where the old one was on the motherboard, booted up and all seemed well. The new drive was automatically seen as c:\, and all the programs are there, but both of my Vegas installations are the only things that won't run properly.

I think the mistake I made is not labeling the new c:\ exactly how I had the old one labeled. I can't recall if it was "program disk," "boot drive," "system drive," or whatever. I might actually have to reinstall it just to get the name. Reminder to self: I love computers!

Vegas is definately aware something has changed or it should be running fine like everything else I moved over to the new drive. I've learned to never underestimate the security features SF wrote into their baby. It's very good, but annoying at times.

nickle wrote on 11/27/2004, 9:00 PM

Maybe the software you used is different, but usually a cloned drive is absolutely identical and everything is exactly as it was including the drive labels.

I use Driveimage frequently and Vegas never knows the difference.

stepfour wrote on 11/28/2004, 11:49 AM

I guess the Maxtor utility didn't make an exact copy then. Still, I checked everything I have, and VV3 and V4 are the ONLY programs that no longer run properly. Fortunately, I still have the install files for VV3.0c and V4.0e so I'm just reinstalling them. Thanks for the comments.