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Storage on the Move

Hi Doc, I’m preparing to build a new PC and plan to reuse my two 3TB hard drives. They’re currently mirrored in Storage Spaces. Is there an easy way to move them, or do I have to back them up, move the drives, and rewrite the data?

I also have Adobe InDesign CS5. Adobe supported this for a generous amount of time with patches and enhancements but doesn’t anymore. If I install it off the CD, then copy all the files from the current installation to the new one, will I be back where I am now? Or do you know a clever way to move old apps?

–Michael Duval

If your 3TB drives are already working well under Windows, then making the switch to a new platform should be as easy as disconnecting them from your old machine, hooking them up to the new one, and checking Storage Spaces to

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