hard drive in new system

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Hi

I had a Gateway 310 machine that the mother board died on. I want to take
the old drives and place them into a different case. These drives MAY be
password protected, by which I mean a password is needed on log on to
Windows XP home. I do have the pass words.

What if any problems might I encounter placing these drives in a new system.
I understand Windows will scream and complain about this.

Will the pass word cause me any problems? If so, a work around? My biggest
thing is to get some pictures etc off the old drives. I can reload the drive
after that no big deal.

Any thoughts appreciated

Thanks in advance
Rick
 
Rick said:
Hi

I had a Gateway 310 machine that the mother board died on. I want to take
the old drives and place them into a different case. These drives MAY be
password protected, by which I mean a password is needed on log on to
Windows XP home. I do have the pass words.

What if any problems might I encounter placing these drives in a new
system. I understand Windows will scream and complain about this.

Will the pass word cause me any problems? If so, a work around? My biggest
thing is to get some pictures etc off the old drives. I can reload the
drive after that no big deal.

Any thoughts appreciated
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If you install these drives as slave drives, not the boot drive, then boot
the system and just read the data from them. You might need to take
ownership of the files/folders. From Start | Help and Support search on
Ownership or see this article:

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

If you are asking how to take the drive with Windows XP installed and use it
to boot the new computer that's a whole different issue. It normally would
take at least a repair install for this to work.

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html
 
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