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Get a USB flash drive (and make sure it's big enough for your games) and follow the directions here: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/104/~/transferring-files-onto-a-usb-flash-drive

That will get you the files themselves. A lot of times games need registry entries and system files to work that only get dumped where ever they need to be during installation. If that's the case, you're pretty much stuck. Civ 4 comes to mind.

There ARE ways to get it done, but I could probably not explain them in a way that would not only result in causing more confusion.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244272.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244272.page GMT
Especially with games that require the CD in the drive to play. If you simply transfer the files without reinstalling then it won't have the proper triggers. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244303.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244303.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244335.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244335.page GMT
You could probably move a DOS game my way. I have some Win 95 era RPGs I've been afraid to lose and I've been migrating them from computer to computer since, well, my Win 95 computer millions of years ago.

You're not going to be able to just drag and drop something like that and expect it to work though. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244363.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244363.page GMT
If not, life might be easier for you to just buy yourself an external hard drive caddy and USB it into your newer one.

Would that work for games, though?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244373.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244373.page GMT
If his new computer had an identical CPU and motherboard to the old computer, he might be able to just make a bit for bit clone of the hard drive using Clonezilla and plugging in the hard drive he made the copy of. I can almost guarantee that's not the case though.

Alternatively, he could also use something like the VMWare disk virtualization tool, but the performance of running the game in a vm would be so bad it wouldn't be worth the time and effort, if the game would even run at all.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244408.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7244408.page GMT
Works most of the time. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7245550.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/617237/7245550.page GMT