recovering info from old hard drive

by mikeyboomboom | February 12, 2005 6:24 PM PST

I'm looking for help to swap my pictures from my old harddrive to my new pc. My old Gateway became inoperative. Both computers run XP Home. What I have done already is install the old old harddrive as a slave drive. I was able to access it and moved all of my music files. However when I tried to move my picture files it said I didn't have rights to it. I tried installing the old drive as the primary drive, but it's looking for the product key. I don't have that as I bought the old computer from gateway with XP pre-installed. It gives a 50 digit # to call in but microsoft does not recogmize it to give a product key. All I'm tring to do is sway my picture files to the new harddrive. Any help would be appreiciated.

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You had already

by MarkFlax Forum moderator | February 12, 2005 6:27 PM PST

managed to take off music files from the HD when it was installed as a slave, so the images may be an Accounting problem.

Re-install the old drive as a slave, and go to this link;

http://www.winxptutor.com/ownership.htm

Hope it helps.

Mark

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Thanks for the help

by mikeyboomboom | February 13, 2005 7:12 AM PST

Thanks!
I'm going to give it a shot. I'll let you know.

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Success, It worked!

by mikeyboomboom | February 13, 2005 1:41 PM PST

Hey, Thanx a lot that link worked perfect. I was able to access my pic files. Which included wedding / honeymoon pics which were irreplacable. Now, do you know of any good backing up software?

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You don't need a back up program

by glb613 | February 13, 2005 7:01 PM PST

Save or burn those photos on a DVD or CD. Open the CD/DVD burning software and either use create a data or photo CD/DVD.

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Well done!

by MarkFlax Forum moderator | February 13, 2005 7:23 PM PST

I'm glad it worked for you.

I see Gail has given good advice about backing up, and there's nothing more I can add.
Mark

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Thanx!

by mikeyboomboom | February 14, 2005 7:16 AM PST

Thanx again for all the great advice.

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After you get

by glb613 | February 12, 2005 7:15 PM PST

the pictures off the old hard drive, save them on a CD or DVD. Having your pictures only save on a hard drive is not wise. As you found out, computers and hard drives fail. You need to save anything important away from the hard drive.

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NO DOUBT!!!!

by mikeyboomboom | February 13, 2005 7:10 AM PST

NO DOUBT!!!!
I will always be sure to back-up from here on out. Hopefully I'll be able to get them back.

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