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moving hard drive to other PC

Apr 16, 2005 9:42AM PDT

if you read my other post my pc is messed up but the hard drive is perfectly fine. Now there are some very important files on there and i was wondering that if i were to put that hard drive in my dad's pc, what will happened? his pc has XP and XP is also on my hard drive. i was wondering if there is a way i can just get the files out of there? because if i can just get the files i can then move them to my dad's hard drive and erase what on my hard drive and then add it as more storage to another pc

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Yep. . .
Apr 16, 2005 12:43PM PDT
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Thanks
Apr 16, 2005 1:21PM PDT

good thing for me. so all i need to do is set it up as a slave and then i will not have any other files? One thing though. On my PC that got messed up i had accounts with password. Someone could not see someones else accounts(like thier desktop, documents, folders) will i be able to see them after setting it up as a slave?

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Should be able to. . .
Apr 16, 2005 10:45PM PDT

but I've never looked for that type of stuff.

Give it a shot, it'll either work or it won't.