recover files

[Guest]

I have a hard drive from a defunct e-machine (desktop T 1840) that has files
that I would like to recover. I am running xp on a gateway GT 5014 that has a
much smaller connecter therefor I cannot install the old drive onto my
gateway. Is there any other way I can transpose info from old drive to new? I
tried installing the olddrive(which is a samsung sv4012h/tgn onto a HP
desktop I had in the attic (an old pavilion) and got nowhere. Thanks in
advance.

 

[Malke]

I have a hard drive from a defunct e-machine (desktop T 1840) that has
files that I would like to recover. I am running xp on a gateway GT
5014 that has a much smaller connecter therefor I cannot install the
old drive onto my gateway. Is there any other way I can transpose info
from old drive to new? I tried installing the olddrive(which is a
samsung sv4012h/tgn onto a HP desktop I had in the attic (an old
pavilion) and got nowhere. Thanks in advance.

There are several things you can do:

1. Your current XP machine apparently uses SATA hard drives. Disconnect
one of the optical drives which will be IDE and attach your old drive
to it. The master position is the best and then you won't need to
change jumpers. Then boot into Windows and copy your data from the old
drive to somewhere on your new drive.

2. I don't know why you "got nowhere" by connecting the drive to your
old HP. I suspect you tried to connect it as master and boot into
Windows. Again, what you want to do is attach the old drive as slave or
to the optical drive IDE connector.

3. Take the old drive to a professional computer repair shop and have
them get the data for you. This is an easy job and should not cost very
much at all.

Malke