XP hd crashed and Help installing on new W7

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My xP hd crashed but I have acess to the hd and can copy the wdisplay director to the new w7. How do I merge my files andsetup and registration to W7.

Please Help.

John Sullivan
Plainfield IL

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See if this FAQ helps: Moving WD to a new/different PC

You won’t be able to backup the registry so you’ll have to use what’s already there, but the rest should work OK.

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Thanks, Now please help me, which files do I copy into the new wdisplay directory?

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copy across the whole folder (i.e the whole folder and all files/sub directories)
to where you have first installed the full install version

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Sorry but that didn’t work. I installed the current latest version. then copied all my old files in that director, when I try to run it I get runtime error 217 at 0018A734.

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make sure the files/folders you are copying are not set to read only (write protected) or similar

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Make sure you are installing WD to C:\ such as C:\ WDisplay, and NOT to Program Files

-Bob

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Bob and Brian,

I can run the new version 10.37Q in the trial mode. Is there a way to get my old setting and registration. copying all the files is not working. I have the folder in the c:\wdisplay folder not in my programs.

John

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John,

The only way I am aware of to get your old settings would be to execute the wdisplayftp.reg file as was noted in the Moving WD to a New Computer FAQ

-Bob

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OK, I will go back to trying to get the hd to work one more time. Thanks

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did you have the old version of WD set to do back up of WD settings/data?
(recommended)

if so then you would have the wdisplayftp.reg file

as for the registration, email me the new code that shows

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Good news,I had the backup file, I got you latest prgram to run. Now what am I missing to get the davis vantage pro to work. was there a weather link to go between wd and davis?

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what type of data logger?
usb or serial?

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usb

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you will need to install weatherlink, to get the usb driver installed
make sure though weather link is set to serial and not usb (usb express) mode
so that a virtual com port shows up in device manager (with a port number )
if set to usbexpress mode you can unset that (see the FAQ)

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Brian,

I finally got weatherlink to work. I am using weatherlink 5.9.3 and running W7 64. It all seem to work now.

Thanks for your help