move drive to another computer, cant see My Docs folder???

[Guest]

Hi Al
i have been pulling my hair out last night trying to fix a problem i have
i added in a new DVD drive, and the machine hasnt booted since

i get a message saying hal.dll missing
i have looked and found support docs on the issue, but something else has happened too

the Windows folder has gone from C:so making a boot disk is useless
i want to just reformat the drive and start again, but i want to get the my documents folder before i do this

when i move the drive into another machine, it tells me the correct amount of free space, so it is aware that the drive has other stuff on it, but i cant see any of the folders i had on the other machine

i have tried using thr recovery console too
but nothing there works, because it cant find any windows installs

all i want to do now, is get a copy of my docs

oh, its formatted to ntfs

any help would be greatly appreciate

Ryan

 

[Rich Barry]

Is the computer's drive you move the old drive to formatted in FAT32. If
yes, you won't be able to see
a NTFS drive. Don't know how you lost the Windows Folder. Maybe try this
utility

http://www.pcworlddownload.com/system-utilities/system-utilities/Active-NTFS-Reader-for-DOS.htm

Hi All
i have been pulling my hair out last night trying to fix a problem i have.
i added in a new DVD drive, and the machine hasnt booted since.

i get a message saying hal.dll missing.
i have looked and found support docs on the issue, but something else has happened too.

the Windows folder has gone from C:so making a boot disk is useless.
i want to just reformat the drive and start again, but i want to get the

my documents folder before i do this.

when i move the drive into another machine, it tells me the correct amount

of free space, so it is aware that the drive has other stuff on it, but i
cant see any of the folders i had on the other machine.