That would have needed to be installed on your old drive while XP was running. You will be left with copy/paste and won't be able to transfer anything but data, I suspect. Win7 is structured differently and where you initially put your files and documents doesn't matter much. Win 7 does have a My Documents folder which I believe is under Libraries. You can copy the contents of your My Documents folder there. The important thing to do for now is to maintain the integrity of the old drive until you can copy over what you can. You may also have such as browser bookmarks and data from programs that don't use the My Documents folder but created their own under your profile. I'll suggest that, if your new PC doesn't have a second hard drive that you get one and copy all of your important data and folders from the USB connected drive to a separate internal drive as well. Good luck.
Hi, my Dell XPS computer, running XP crashed a few days ago. The computers hard drive gave out, but I'm still able to access the hard drive and all it's contents through a usb external drive. I purchased a new computer with Windows 7. I know nothing about it, so I need your help. I would like to transfer those settings to the new computer running Windows 7, however, I cannot get Windows Easy Transfer to even work. Because the drive that had Windows XP on it is now an external drive, and I cannot seem to get WET to run at all from that drive. Probably because it's not a different computer?
Does anyone know how I can transfer these settings without turning it in Windows XP or not damage the new system? I thought about copying the "Documents and Settings" folder into the Windows 7 Documents and Settings, but I don't see that folder.
There was another post on here from way back from somebody that said copying and pasting will work fine. But will that change Windows 7 to something else? Where would I paste the Documents and Settings from the external drive? Since I don't have a computer running XP any longer, is it possible to even use Windows Easy Transfer or should I be looking at some other ideas? Is it possible to transfer the programs too?
Your help is appreciated. Thanks

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