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24th Sep 2008, 14:06
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About the HDD, have you had a look in the disk manager? (control panel>administrative tools>computer management>storage>disk management) does the drive appear there? if it does, you can right click on the drive and select assign drive letter, if it doesn't there is something wrong with either the HDD, the caddy, or the connection.
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About the transfer wizard, I'm not sure it will work like that, as it will assume it's part the the same computer and therefore you don't need to transfer any information, what might be best, if if you put the old hdd back in your old computer, and use the new PSU to power the old computer, you can do the first bit on you old computer, then switch the PSU back again, and do the second part. However I would wait till serverguy replies about it as he seems to know more about the tranfer wizard than I do. My System: First OC
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24th Sep 2008, 19:37
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Nimbus, are you trying to transfer to the same OS, like from XP to XP or are you trying to go from XP to Vista?
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25th Sep 2008, 05:26
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You will have problems with reading the old disk if you used the "make my files private" option on setting up your account on the old PC.
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25th Sep 2008, 10:11
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Thingie2/Mike0001/Bubba,
Thank you all for your contributions. Thingie2 - I did what you suggested and the drive appeared in Disk Mangement, but there was no highlighted option to select a drive letter. I took the caddy back to the shop today and the chap had the same result with it as I did last night, and pronounced the old machine's Hard Disk dead, possibly caused by the failure of the Power Supply last week. Therefore, I think I'm at the end of the road with this exercise and will abandon it - unless you know of any way that you can recover data from a dead disk (I seem to remember reading about it somewhere). Bubba (& Thingie2) - you've probably raised a relevant point, especially re the Transfer Wizard. I was talking to the chap in the shop about operating systems, and from the conversation I'm beginning to think that at least some of my problem was that I was working with different ones (which I failed to mention in my original posting) - my new machine is XP while the old one is 98SE. I'd be interested to know what you were going to say though? Mike0001/Serverguy - unless you've anything else to add, I think it just remains for me to thank you for your help with this. I appreciate your involvement. Nimbus |
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26th Sep 2008, 03:12
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Well if the HDD is actually dead, you won't be able to get anything off it, however there are companies around that specialise is that, however I wouldn't recomend it unless you have rearly valuable stuff on that drive that you require, as those companies will charge hundreds of pounds to get the data off, and even then there are no promises.
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27th Sep 2008, 02:13
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Thingie2,
I'm not really sure about how "dead" it really is, but the stuff isn't valuable - I started this exercise for my own education as much as anything - and in view of what you say about cost, I think I'll drop it. On the plus side I can now get rid of the problematical old computer at last, in the knowledge that there is nothing more I can do with it. So as I said earlier, thanks for your time, and I hope our paths cross again. Nimbus. |
