I am using Win XP and recently fitted a second hard drive. This was a fairly old Seagate out of an old Win95 computer (that died). The objective of the exercise was to be able to access old important data files. The primary hard drive is fitted as a Master and the secondary as a Slave. BIOS Setup recognizes the slave hard drive (cylinders, heads, size etc) but Windows does not!
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I can see the old hard drive in the E drive and it appears that all the contents are there by the size of the hard drive (same as when I had it in the old laptop) but I can only see, actually view, a very small percentage of the drive.
My goal: I want to transfer all old music, word documents and photos from old laptop into new laptop.
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I had this idea, see if anybody has an opinion about this. My wife has an old XP computer I want to buy her a new one but she doesn't like the vista and she wants to keep the old xp operating system. What I want to do is take the old hard drive and put it in the new computer as the master and take the new hard drive and put it in as the slave erasing the vista off it. Then using the master slave way can I transfer the xp operating system and all her files and data from the old hard drive to the new one.
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THE DVD ROM IS WORKING PERFECTLY OK WITH OTHER SOME MOVIE DVD'S AND SOME DVD'S GIVING THE ABOVE MENTIONED PROBLEM.
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Every once in awhile I wouldn't be able to pull a picture or document off because of a cyclic redundancy check error. I just moved on and saved what I could. I assumed it was because the hard drive was already bad so I just moved what I could.
recentley i uninstalled my nero 7 software , the next time i turned the pc on my desktop icons have all changed to the type windows dont recognise, it asks me if i wish to select the programe to run it or try to direct me to the web , in the majority of my programe files i have the same format, i did have avg anit virus , ad aware profesional that reminds me when i first noticed the problem ad aware must have flashed up nearly thirty registry warnings that i never recognised , the only part of the c drive that works is the windows photo viewer, i have tried a system restore and have tried a running an xp disc over the top to no avail, i would really like to save this drive if possible , have run ad aware over it nothing found, i downloaded a hijack but windows wont run it , i have installed windows onto the other hard drive to get me going and hopefully give me chance to save the drive, pc is amd sempron 3000+ 512 ram two hard drives both reported good on a test ,
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