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- Recovering Outlook Contact Data
- I support several remote sales reps. Recently, one of our reps had to purchase a new laptop, as the mother board in his old one had finally died (5 yr old Toshiba, well used). He upgraded to a Dell Vostro with XP Pro. The problem now is...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- Retrieving Data from NTFS drive
- I recently encountered some problems installing software on my Dell System. I am running Windows XP Professional. After several attempts to fix the problem, I purchased a new hard drive and installed my OS on it. It seems to be working fine but I have some files on the old...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- Remove admin password from User "My Documents" folder
- I replaced the hard drive on my laptop before removing the admin password, installed new hard drive and put old hard drive in external case. Installed Windows XP and everything is great....Except, I cannot access the document folder on the old hard drive now in external caseto copy files over....
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- Hard Drive install -Compaq Presario 7110US
- Hey guys!Ok, I have a few questions, but first I need to make sure I am installing this newer hard drive correctly. Actually, a friend did it for me, so I was not watching as to which power lead was hooked up to the original hard drive -there's a kazillion...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-08
- Outlook Express, address book off old hard drive
- Seems to be a common question, how do I retrieve my Address book off Outlook from my old hard drive which is now in an external encosure, conneced by a USB cable, no longer an independant Identity ! I have had to purchase a new laptop and have been abe...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Adding an old hard drive to a new computer
- I just bought a Compaq Presario SR2032x with a 200GB Hard Drive. I want to install the hard drive from my "old" Compaq Presario s6100nx in my new computer. Both are running Windows XP Home. I studdied up on the procedure before I opened the boxes and thought I would...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-08
- New Hard Drive Installation
- I am installing a new hard drive in my PC. The old hard drive is partitioned, with "C:" being the Primary and "D" being Secondary. If I setup the old hard drive as the "Slave" can I just transfer the files from the old hard drive to the...
- Q&A 2006-03-13
- Don't leave information on old hard drives
- Organizations replace computers for all kinds of reasons, and they often donate or sell the old hardware. However, many fail to effectively erase the data on the old hard drives. Jonathan Yarden examines this growing threat to data security, and he offers tips for making sure you safely get rid...
- Technical articles 2006-01-27
- Adding an old hardrive
- I recently bought a new computer but I would like to keep files and programs from my old hardrive. The old computer is running windows 98 and I now am using Win XP media edition. Can I remove the old hardrive and add it to my new computer...
- Q&A 2006-01-02
- Emergency: Outlook database recovery
- I recently built a new computer for a client, and when I tried to switch the old hard drive into the new system, it refused to boot because the copy of Windows 98 was designed specifically for Dell, and therefore wouldn't work on the new machine. So I backed up...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-22
- Tech Tip: Don't leave information on old hard drives
- By Jonathan Yarden It doesn't surprise me that many people failto understand the basic workings of computer systems, and yet theycan still use them effectively every day. But it does disturb methat there are so many people using complex machinery that theyknow nothing about--or even care to learn. ...
- Technical articles 2004-08-02
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- cannot access documents from old hard drive with new computer?
- I installed a new Dell computer at work yesterday, took the old hard drive from the old computer and put in an enclosure to use as a back up and to move all word docs to new computer. So I plugged it in and was unable to access any documents....
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- how to transfer files from old hard drive to new pc?
- Hey, so i have given up on my old pc as i cant revive it so i want to know how to get my files from the old hard drive and transfer it to a new pc? I heard about changing the old hard drive to slave but i dont...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- New motherboard, old hard drive, problems..
- I have a new motherboard that as an AMD64 3200 processor and I had to add a nVidia video card. My previous motherboard was a Pentium 4 with an onboard VGA. When I attempt to connect the old hard drive to the new motherboard I can load in...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- old hard drive - new computer
- alright i already found a post on here that had a similar question but mine is slightly different. right now i have a 40Gb slave hard drive in my old computer. no windows installed on it, excetera. just file storage. photos music and alike. can i...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Can't access files on old hard drive
- I have a hard drive that was pulled from a PC that has gone bad. It appears that the OS on the drive is bad, ie: blue screen of death. I need to access the files on the hard drive however; the user put a password on his account. I...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Get data off old hard drive
- Hi,Old system crashed. Needs new everything and is 3ys old so I'm getting a new computer. The hard drive is ok, so I'd like to get the data off the old hard drive to the new computer. I'm going to convert it to an external HD. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Old Hard drive
- I have a DELL desktop. My hard drive was failing so I replaced it with a new one from Dell ( Maxtor,SATA 150 HDD, 250 GB maxline III)I ran XP media center berfore and now installed XP pro. All is great but I now realize I did not...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- EFS encrypted files, Old Hard Drive not bootable am i SOL?
- My old hard drive failed on me and became unbootable. I migrated all my files onto the new hard drive with the old as a slave. I doubly encrypted some sensitive files with Microsoft EFS and Axcrypt (so I'm doubly screwed I think)...I have the passphrases for Axcrypt,...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-05
- Accessing Old Hard Drive files off NTFS
- I am working on someone's new VISTA pc and their old XP system died. They asked me to transfer their old files from the old computer to the new one running Windows VISTA. I thought that would be easy, so I took the hard drive out of the old computer...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
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