RETRIEVEG DATA FROM XP TO VISTA HD

[KAREN]

My old CPU is NOT working. I have retrieved HD (XP) from it.

how do i transfer data to New vista HD? THANKS

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Mount the drive in the new pc or an external enclosure and copy the files.

 

[Bob F.]

My old CPU is NOT working. I have retrieved HD (XP) from it.

how do i transfer data to New vista HD? THANKS

Karen,
You may find your old drive is an IDE drive and your new Vista machine uses
a Serial ATA (SATA) drive. In this case you won't have a connector in your
computer for your old drive. You can do one of two things. Get a SATA
controller card for you new computer. (Not recommended) or Buy a box into
which your old drive will mount that has a USB plug that will plug right
into your new machine (recommended). I'd bring the drive down to Best Buy
(or your favorite electronics store) and show the sales person what you have
and ask him for such a box. He'll know what you want. They cost from $5 to
$20. You can also get them on e-bay for about $1 to $10 plus shipping.

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BobF.
Lincoln actually got it right but was way ahead of his time when he said,
"You can have some of you computer working all of the time and all of your
computer working some of the time but..." It was he that said that, wasn't
it?

 

[kcstingel]

Old drives are sucessfully installed in new box, problem is ownership.
Vista thinks owned by S-1-etc which is unknown user.

Will DVD transfer fix the problem?
Is there any other method that could work?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Take Ownership. Right click the drive, choose properties. On the security
tab click advanced. On the ownership tab click edit. Select your current
user account, then ok. Enable the line to propagate to all subfolders and
containers. Click apply/ok and wait for it to run. Close the security dialog
and you should now be able to access the files/folders on that drive.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com