recovering programs and data files from slave drive

[Guest]

Help Please! I have installed a new hard drive and re-installed XP Pro SP2 on
my computor and set my old hard drive as a slave drive. I now find that I
cannot recover programs from my old drive nor can I import outlook express
address book or emails from old drive only basic files etc.
Is there any way of recovering these things without having to re-install the
old drive as master and coping them to an external source first?

Yours in anticipation,

Pure Yid

 

[LVTravel]

Programs no. Each program would have to be installed to the
new version of the OS(new drive) since doing so copies
various files and settings to the OSs registry. Most
programs can not simply be copied from one drive to another
and expect it to work.

The address book should be located in Documents and
Settings\your logonname\Application Data\Microsoft\Address
Book on the old drive. You may have to take ownership to
access them.. It is Yourlogonname.wab. You possibly can
copy this to the same location on the new OS drive. Emails
are a different problem. They are stored in a folder that
is inaccessible to you normally. When you navigate to it
you can't open the folder to see what is there even with
show system and display hidden files set properly. Files
and Settings Transfer Wizard won't help since this is for
use between different computers. To get them, you probably
will have to switch the drive back, export them to the new
drive and then reimport them once the drives are switched
back again. If someone has a way to get them otherwise,
please correct me.


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[Guest]

Thanks for the advice LVTravel. I had a feeling that there was no simple way
copy over the progs etc so I'll try what you suggested and switch the drives
back over and try exporting them. Thanks again for your quick reply,

Pure Yid.