Comments on: Moving Files From Old Drive to a New One

By: Screwyl42

Screwyl42 — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:44:00 +0000

i put in a blank driver and fomated it witth window or windows xp progarm but one is a 40bit and the other is 80 how do i run 80 as the master

By: Somone11

Somone11 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:51:49 +0000

FYI to anyone. After you install that old hard drive you have to take owership of the files. In vista is easy right click on the file. Go to Security. Click advanced Click Edit. YOu need to click the part where it say inherite all files and something is checked. It will ask you to take owership of the files. There may be a step or two I missed. But when your in there its very clear what you need to click. Thats how you gain acess to the files. Or google it for better directions. In XP you have to boot the computer in safe mode to do this. The step are a little different but same principle. Again google it.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:31:08 +0000

My old computer was running window xp but computer stopped powering on. So I took the hard drive out and put it into another computer. The master drive is SATA, but the hard drive from the older computer is plugged in as IDE. (The newer computer is running vista.) When the computer boots up, the folders show up, but the files in the folders do not.

By: Abby Jones

Abby Jones — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:24:01 +0000

I used to think that transferring my files from an old hard drive to a new external hard drive was difficult. Thanks for this!

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:41:13 +0000

I had a 2004 Dell computer crash, it ran an WD eide hard drive. I bought a new gateway computer yesterday(SATA Drive) and the guy from Best buy said all I needed was the enclosure system to transfer my files to the new computer. I hooked everything up but when I went to transfer my files to the new computer it wouldn’t let me because is said I did not have permission from the owner. I AM THE OWNER. The old computer was password protected. I used the same name and password on the new system but still cannot access my old stuff. What can I do.

By: t wallace

t wallace — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:48:40 +0000

yes and if you back up your files the virus goes with them

By: Seymour Wheelock

Seymour Wheelock — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:26:33 +0000

Don’t know why but I’m finding little help online with this question:
I bought a new PC laptop. It’s Vista. I want to keep what it has on it in the way of applications, files, settings, etc. I want to add to it the programs, files, settings, etc., from the old laptop. All I find is info about transferring to the new one as if to replace, not augment, the files on the new one. I’ve got a clone of the old HD on an external USB HD. What do I do?

By: Patricia Cossart

Patricia Cossart — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:03:41 +0000

My old computer died and I had the computer people put everything on the old hard drive on to a portable one. I cam home and hooked it up to my new computer, but now I can’t access much of what’s on it. I get access denied as I don’t have permission. What does this mean and what can I do about it? Please help.

By: zing

zing — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:59:22 +0000

can i twitter my files to new computeR??! plz help

By: yvette

yvette — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:56:01 +0000

I had a question i want to transfer word documents excel documents music and pictures from my old dell computer to my new hp computer. in my dell computer i have a virus, when i transfer over these files will i also transfer the virus?