restore drive and files-Help

[Geoff]

My hard drive crashed.I had another drive installed. I
have successfully reloaded XP Proffessional on this drive
(F drive) but need the files from the previous drive (c
drive)that I requested be kept in the same tower. Can I
run system restore on the one drive (c) that originally
crashed, bring up files and copy to the new drive (f)? If
so, how is this done.
Thanks in advance,
Geoff

 

[CheshireCat]

My hard drive crashed.I had another drive installed. I
have successfully reloaded XP Proffessional on this drive
(F drive) but need the files from the previous drive (c
drive)that I requested be kept in the same tower. Can I
run system restore on the one drive (c) that originally
crashed, bring up files and copy to the new drive (f)? If
so, how is this done.
Thanks in advance,
Geoff

that sounds so dangerous even if it could be done Geoff. What happened when
it crashed ? Do you mean the drive died or was it a windows config problem
that prevented windows being run again?

 

[Geoff]

I am not sure. The system would not boot up. It asked to
insert a system disk. I did not get any other prompt. I
just kept going to BIOS to make sure that the CD was
first in line. Prior to getting the new drive installed,
I placed the XP installation cd in the d drive but
learned later that the drivers and files had been lost so
it needed the start up floppy disks to reload files to
boot up. The real problem as I understand is that the old
c drive would not boot up. As I learned in formatting the
new hard drive (f), I needed the XP boot disks (6) to get
XP installed which I successfully downloaded from
microsoft. Thanks for responding. Any additional help or
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Geoff

 

[Geoff]

-----Original Message-----
I am not sure. The system would not boot up. It asked to
insert a system disk. I did not get any other prompt. I
just kept going to BIOS to make sure that the CD was
first in line. Prior to getting the new drive installed,
I placed the XP installation cd in the d drive but
learned later that the drivers and files had been lost so
it needed the start up floppy disks to reload files to
boot up. The real problem as I understand is that the old
c drive would not boot up. As I learned in formatting the
new hard drive (f), I needed the XP boot disks (6) to get
XP installed which I successfully downloaded from
microsoft. Thanks for responding. Any additional help or
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Geoff (f)? Geoff.
What happened when
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