need some advise plz

hi all...ive just bought a new PC and am in the process of getting things of my old comp onto this new one.
Now ive come to GW and need to know whether i just re-install the games( all 4 chapters +bonus) from the discs and then relog on the d/load all updates from whenever wayback?

or

Re-install games and just transfer updates folders from the old comp to this new one?

any advise be grateful

If you can transfer the gw.dat file from the old PC, that will save you from having to re-download everything.

If you can't, just login and re-download. You can use the -image command from the command line to get everything all at once. Although this will take several hours, even with a high speed connection.

The game disks are basically useless. lol.

so transfering DAT file should be good enough.
I was concerned Anet might see that as maybe tampering with game file and maybe cost me a ban?

Nope, unless you add something to it, you're ok.

They won't ban you.

Eh I just installed Eye of the North on Vista and I did -image after that, only 5,000 some odd files O.o seems that the EotN CD had practically all the files on it already, who knows.

If you can't transfer the .dat (it is huge, after all), then installing from the EotN disc and then running an -image is certainly the best way to go.

May even be BETTER - you get a whole new, un-bloated .dat