manually drag files from slave drive to new hard drive

[mooky]

Yes, you'll be able to "read" them - as in seeing them on the hard
drive.

If by reading, you mean opening the files to see their contents.

Yes as long as
1) you don't run into ownership issues (take ownership to resolve this
problem)
2) you have programs installed in the NEW Windows setup - yes.

Thanks so much for all the info.....I'm not going to use a clone ool
of the old drive to the new one because I lost everything doing that
before. The drive I am on now replaced my old 20 gig that I currently
have as a slave for some backups..when copying the 20 gig to the
Maxtor...I had 2% left to go and the PC rebooted and I lost
everything...nothing worked and had to do a clean Windows install on
the new drive..so I'm gonna do the clean install...also, not sure
about using the old drive at all since it's giving me trouble every
other day or every few days with some blue screen and too many
reallocated sectors..I might wait until my new dvd burner gets here
and back up everything on dvd's.....mainly have a lot of music,
website, pictures, word documents, emails, to back up. My docs right
now is at least 11 gigs or more...thought it might be able to back
them up on dvds instead of using my 8x sony cd burner that would take
at least 50 cds...

 

[mooky]

Thanks so much for all the info.....I'm not going to use a clone ool
of the old drive to the new one because I lost everything doing that
before. The drive I am on now replaced my old 20 gig that I currently
have as a slave for some backups..when copying the 20 gig to the
Maxtor...I had 2% left to go and the PC rebooted and I lost
everything...nothing worked and had to do a clean Windows install on
the new drive..so I'm gonna do the clean install...also, not sure
about using the old drive at all since it's giving me trouble every
other day or every few days with some blue screen and too many
reallocated sectors..I might wait until my new dvd burner gets here
and back up everything on dvd's.....mainly have a lot of music,
website, pictures, word documents, emails, to back up. My docs right
now is at least 11 gigs or more...thought it might be able to back
them up on dvds instead of using my 8x sony cd burner that would take
at least 50 cds...

I am curious also, on how many dvd's it will take to back up my
docs...nero backitup says estimated 151.9 gigs for my docs and 30.28
gigs for the entire hard drive...I would feel better just installing
files and copying folders using dvds and not worry about the master
slave thing anymore..I better go with my instincts.

 

[mooky]

I am curious also, on how many dvd's it will take to back up my
docs...nero backitup says estimated 151.9 gigs for my docs and 30.28
gigs for the entire hard drive...I would feel better just installing
files and copying folders using dvds and not worry about the master
slave thing anymore..I better go with my instincts.

sorry to post so much, but things pop in my head and I have to post
them...google needs to be able to let people edit a post if they need
to... anyway how would I restore files using nerobackitup on my new
drive? maybe I should use an easier program to back up and if so what
would be recommended??

 

[Sharon F]

I am curious also, on how many dvd's it will take to back up my
docs...nero backitup says estimated 151.9 gigs for my docs and 30.28
gigs for the entire hard drive...I would feel better just installing
files and copying folders using dvds and not worry about the master
slave thing anymore..I better go with my instincts.

I hope that old hard drive hangs in there until you get everything switched
around. I think since the old hard drive is giving you so much trouble that
it may be worthwhile to move all irreplaceable data to a working drive - be
it hard disk or optical disks.

I'm sorry but I don't remember your system's configuration. I thought it
was a single small drive less than 100GB and 2 optical disks. So I'm
confused as to why you would have over 150 GB worth of data. If you give a
few more details, someone (me or someone else) may have some ideas for you.

 

[Sharon Fink]

sorry to post so much, but things pop in my head and I have to post
them...google needs to be able to let people edit a post if they need
to... anyway how would I restore files using nerobackitup on my new
drive? maybe I should use an easier program to back up and if so what
would be recommended??

I use Nero but have never used their backup program.

"Easiest" is subjective - basic copy/paste will work but you have to be
thorough in tracking down data locations. It's easy to find "My
Documents" - not as easy to find, oh say, the Outlook Express mailboxes
and folders.

Personally, I use Acronis True Image. While this program is designed to
create a complete image of a hard drive, it also includes an "explorer"
that allows you to look in images and to extract folders and files.

HTH

 

[mooky]

I use Nero but have never used their backup program.

"Easiest" is subjective - basic copy/paste will work but you have to be
thorough in tracking down data locations. It's easy to find "My
Documents" - not as easy to find, oh say, the Outlook Express mailboxes
and folders.

Personally, I use Acronis True Image. While this program is designed to
create a complete image of a hard drive, it also includes an "explorer"
that allows you to look in images and to extract folders and files.

HTH

I'm just goinng to backup my docs files to a dvd, backup mail,
firefox, explorer favorites, install programs etc...I have them stored
there for easy access....If it is possible to extract the files and
folders using nero backitup just for files and folders and not use the
drive backup selection and use the files and just do a general backup
of files and folders, maybe they could be extracted in Windows unlike
the drive backup that says you have to boot into dos to extract that
file..