Software issues

[MercyElias]

I have put myself in a corner I can not get out of.
My pastor gave me a tower with several programs on it he wanted onto an external hard drive.
One of them is Mitchell On Demand 5 and the other is ALL DATA Feb '11
He ended up giving me 2 external hard drives each 232 GB.
While moving files, the one drive says its full so I continue moving them to the other drive. Figuring with both drives plugged in, He should be able to use the programs. This didnt work.
Now I am trying to return the programs to the Tower and am having more problems. For some reason, What I have moved from C: is bigger than where I took it from. There isnt enough space on the C: drive to replace the programs.
What I would like to know, How do I get these programs back to the way they were and COPY the programs onto a bigger external hard drive with all this able to opperate on the hard drive?
This Tower has XP professional and 512 MB Ram

 

[PhilFrisbie]

Most Windows programs cannot be copied like that, you MUST reinstall them from the original discs or install files.

If he still has a legal license he should be able to contact the companies and ask for replacement install files or discs to move them to a new computer.