It really works well if you have multiple PCs like I do. My problem is, I recently had a house fire and my PC windows xp home edition was still running when the firemen put the fire out. They cut the power to the house right off.
Then the smoke and water was the other problem. The hard drive still runs and has my data. I have connected the hard drive to a lesser operating system windows me pc to read the drive and all the data points to recovery type files. I do not recognize any of the file names that I used. I cannot find the d drive on my pc. When I insert the disc nothing happens. Can you help me? Hi I recently unpluged 1 of the IDE cables that was attached to one of my hard drives as I needed to attach my friend hard drive to translate data from him.
I wanted to transfer files from a broken PC to my new one.. I simply unplugged the power cable and the data cable from the old hard drive, and used the new cables which then go from my old hard drive to USB port on my new computer. My freind was drinkin next to my computer and decided my keyboard was thirsty. Well i have a usb keyboard and mouse because of no psu connections or what ever the standerd mouse an keyboard connections are called.
So i then decide i will install the drivers on my harddrive main one with root folders.. Or any other sugestions on how to install drivers on to my hard drive… Thanks, Danny. Its called a crossover cable. It connects between the ethernet ports on each machine. Look for U-tube videos on how to make your own crossover cable. Not sure if USB cables have a special name for that or not. My Gateway computer failed. The hard functions.
Can I build a new computer use my old hard drive with installed XP operating system in the new computer? The device manager shows it as being there and operational but it does not show up as a local drive anywhere. I did a lookup in DOS and it just doesnt show up.
I have info on it I would like to transfer to the new computer. My SATA drive shows up fine. I have a feeling it has to do with the drives being different types which is causing a conflict.
If it is a second drive make sure the jumper connections are set to slave; or set both drives to cable select. Next go to your bios settings and verify that the drive is installed in the bios. If you can see the drive in Device Manager then the bios knows its there, but check anyway to see if the bios has a problem.
If the above items are satisfied go to device manager. Uninstall the old drive; and reinstall using add hardware process in your control panel. How can I get someone to help me with my previous question. I see no one has responded but I feel there are others out there with the same or similar issue..
Appreciate some help on this if possible or respond to daanderud adelphia. You get in to that during boot up by holding the delete key. Hope it helped. Also, when I go into my computer I can see the new drive as drive E:.
I am pretty sure that if I format it I will lose all data… so, how do I get my new computer to be able to read the old hard drive. Seems like I am almost there but please help???? My e drive is asking to format exterior drive. How to recover pictures from external drive without formating exterior drive. After installing new hard drive I installed all data from old drive including Windows XP using system recovery disks. One thing I cannot understand after booting etc,. I ran Disk Investigator and ran search for site I visited whilst on old hard drive, now removed, and to my surprise got positive results.
How could this be I had not even visited any sites whatsoever since installing new hard drive. It depends on how similar the old and new machines are. I can remove XP or the new disc altogether. Will the OS in the old disc boot up in the new system or will it cause any data loss? I put my old drive in my new computer and I can see it with Explorer but it denies me access to My Documentds even though I am the Computer Administator on the new machine.
I did have a seperate user id and log-in on my old machine. Is there a way around this? No, there are other ways. But that type of enclosure may well be one of the easiest ways. Can I remove my existing hard drive from my pc and instal in my spare pc, remove the hd from the spare.
Both are windows 98se machines. Only difference is my spare is a p3 at mz old one is p2 at mz. I want the spare to operate the same as my existing. Thanks much. I just transferred an old Win98 drive to a new computer as the boot drive. It works after much driver wrangling in the new system P4 — 2. Problem is WIN 98 under the new PC is still hanging a bit and looking for the old sound card, even after the sound card was uninstalled in windows.
I did run registry mechanic and Destroy IT! There lies my dilemma. Do you know how I would go about disabling the old HDD from booting up first?
I have a similar question to matthew; I have just been given an old pc with XP pro on it. The pc I use now has ME. The one I have been given has no space for a second hard drive, however, my ME pc does. May it be possible to put the XP hard drive in the ME pc? If so could I boot from it? I am trying to use an XP HD and connect to a 98 computer to retrieve files from it. Is it possible? And how? All I get is a white line going across the bottom of the screen.
I have a new motherboard and tower i would like to use my old hard drive in the new computer as the primery drive i have put the old drive int the new one but it will not boot up can you help me with a step by step yours THANKS.
When installing an old hard drive in a new computer,does the old operating system need to be removed? Both are xp home with sp2. I would like to take this Hdd and place it in my new computer. This will be the only HDD I will be using. I have been told that it is hard to do. I think the person who told me this is just trying to scare me into paying him to do it. Is it possible to install the drive into the new computer and use it after I reinstall the OS? Please help me.
Tell me what I should do to make this work. Any ideas? This article was very helpful. The comments posted were also very helpful. I succeeded in putting the hard drive from an older computer into my Windows XP. It worked without me having to configure any settings on the PC. I just connected the power and pin cables and set the jumpers. I set the original XP hard drive to Master and the older hard drive as a Slave.
When I started the computer again it started as usual. When I went to My computer it had the added hard drive listed. Thank You. I have a related question. I have everything working on the old PC except that it is an old machine. I simply want to get more speed and do not want to reconfigure the OS. Old computer hard windows xp, new has vista. Leo, I have enjoyed your newsletter for years, and am happy to be able to contribute something for your other readers.
I have had great success in using a USB 2. It eliminates the need to open your computer to install the old hard-drive. The adapter allows you to access the old hard-drive from your new computer as an external disk. What is OneDrive? How do I create an account for OneDrive? How much storage is available on OneDrive? Can I transfer my files without using OneDrive? Can I use Microsoft Office on a new computer? Can I transfer older programs and applications to a new Windows computer?
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This page will show you how to move files to a new computer using an external hard drive and a free transfer tool. Do you own a computer that has been used for years? Do you loathe the slow booting and running speed of your current computer? Do you want to have both a laptop and a desktop so that you can work and play on different devices? After getting a new PC, you can choose to use the new preinstalled OS or copy Windows image to the new computer to enjoy old configuration.
Besides OS, another important thing is your personal data. How to transfer your files, photos, music and all that stuff from your old PC to new PC?
Please read on. To transfer files using an external hard drive, you should first choose an appropriate external drive. You may take the following factors into consideration:. After getting a right external hard drive, you can follow the steps below to transfer files from your old computer to a new computer:. Locate the files or folders you wish to transfer.
Then, copy them to the external hard drive by copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop. Zinstall WinWin. Zinstall Migration Kit Pro. FullBack Backup. Zinstall Easy Transfer. Windows 10 Upgrade Companion. WinServ - Server Migration. FullBack - PC Backup. In this article, we will see how to copy everything from an old hard drive to a new computer, including your programs yes, not just files!
This article will help recover from the crash that already happend, but in the future — you can avoid the hassle by using a self-recovering backup — avaialble here. This article deals with transferring directly from an old drive.
Need to copy programs and files from one computer to another using an external USB drive? Click here for the USB drive tutorial! A few examples where this kind of transfer is required:.
In a nutshell, what you need to do is connect the old drive to the new computer, and run the transfer software. It will recover your programs, settings, files and everything else, automatically and safely. Already have the old hard drive connected to the new computer, and just need a way to recover programs and files from it?
All you need to do is run Zinstall Migration Kit Pro on the computer, and it will recover everything from the drive, even programs.
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