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Message 18207 - Posted: 4 Jul 2008, 12:34:58 UTC

I had a hard drive crash but have a copy of my BOINC folder from the failed drive. Can I transfer it to the new drive directly into Program Files and pick up where I left off, or do I have to start from scratch?

OS = Win2k, SP4.
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Message 18208 - Posted: 4 Jul 2008, 12:49:17 UTC - in response to Message 18207.  

I had a hard drive crash but have a copy of my BOINC folder from the failed drive. Can I transfer it to the new drive directly into Program Files and pick up where I left off, or do I have to start from scratch?

OS = Win2k, SP4.

I suppose your client is BOINC 5.10.20...

You can restore your copy of BOINC folder on new drive and then install the same version (or 5.10.45) into it. BOINC should then work fine and continue where it left.

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Message 18210 - Posted: 4 Jul 2008, 12:50:15 UTC

If nothing changed between when you made the copy and now, you should be able to pull that off. By nothing changed, I mean, no work uploaded/downloaded.

Just put the copy in the Program Files directory and then install BOINC to that directory.
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