Old hard vs new computer

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odan

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Recently my old pent 4 1.8 ghz computer finally decided to give its last switch of the 1 and 0's. Went out and got a new computer, figured i might be able to put my old harddrive into the new computer, its filled with pictures of my 6 month old son and such. But after opening the new computer i have no clue how to do it anymore, theres different connectors and such now.
So what would i have to do to get the old harddrive into the new computer or just even get the files copied to the new one?
Thanks for any help.
 
I imagine that your old hard drive is IDE and the new computer has an SATA hard drive. Just plug the old hard drive into the IDE slot. I don't think you'll need to set it as a slave because it can be a master on the IDE channel and the SATA will still be the boot disk. Once in windows, select the drive and copy the files over to the new hard drive. You can then wipe the other hard drive and use it for extra storage space.
 
by ide slot he means ribbon cable. make sure its plugged into the master ide (the end of the ribbon cable, not the middle).

on the other hand, if the pictures were in my documents and your account was set to private (dont believe it needs to be password protected) then your pictures are lost. unfortunately you cant even recover them with a password, its happened to me before. its one of the many drawbacks to using windows and its also the reason i hate their my documents my picture my videos crap. their attempts to make it more secure also come with drawbacks.
 
fade2green514 said:
on the other hand, if the pictures were in my documents and your account was set to private (dont believe it needs to be password protected) then your pictures are lost. unfortunately you cant even recover them with a password, its happened to me before. its one of the many drawbacks to using windows and its also the reason i hate their my documents my picture my videos crap. their attempts to make it more secure also come with drawbacks.
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Crap, I never knew that... It doesn't have any restrictions on them if your account is private and you burn them to DVD then copy them though, 'cause that has worked for me.
 
In the future I would have at least two copies of whatever files you value so they will not be deleted. Purchase a 4 gigabyte flash drive or buy an external hard drive that you will be able to backup valuable data with.
 
fade2green514 said:
by ide slot he means ribbon cable. make sure its plugged into the master ide (the end of the ribbon cable, not the middle).

on the other hand, if the pictures were in my documents and your account was set to private (dont believe it needs to be password protected) then your pictures are lost. unfortunately you cant even recover them with a password, its happened to me before. its one of the many drawbacks to using windows and its also the reason i hate their my documents my picture my videos crap. their attempts to make it more secure also come with drawbacks.
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they aren't gone. Just get a copy of SLAX and go into the documents and copy them to a flash drive/external hard drive. That's what I've done every time that's happened to me.
 
minisean said:
Crap, I never knew that... It doesn't have any restrictions on them if your account is private and you burn them to DVD then copy them though, 'cause that has worked for me.
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yea that'll work, but that puts them outside those folders while you have access to them. most people dont plan for this specific event when their computers crash or die. a lot of people dont even know that my documents is considered a private folder and most people that do know dont know what exactly it means.

voyagerfan99 said:
they aren't gone. Just get a copy of SLAX and go into the documents and copy them to a flash drive/external hard drive. That's what I've done every time that's happened to me.
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excellent idea with SLAX .. that could work.

i just keep them outside of my documents now lol.. on a seperate internal storage drive. as ive said before this puts them outside those folders while you still have access to the files.
 
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