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[presence06]

i'm sure this has been talked about before but I can't find the answer.

I built my own computer right, I saved the old harddrive has windows xp and all my music/vids/pics on it.

I baught a new hdd for my new set up and installed windows.

now my question is, how can i get my old settings/pics/vids/music onto my new hdd.

people tell me that i can set the jumpers to slave/master but only the western digital one has jumper settings, (new hdd) and the old one doesn't (seagate barracuda 7200.7).

i had both hdd's hooked up and windows saw it but when i went and found my folder, it said it was empty and it wasn't accessible? (Access Denied)

any help?

[presence06]

Originally Posted by presence06 i'm sure this has been talked about before but I can't find the answer. I built my own computer right, I saved the old harddrive has windows xp and all my music/vids/pics on it. I baught a new hdd for my new set up and installed windows. now my question is, how can i get my old settings/pics/vids/music onto my new hdd. people tell me that i can set the jumpers to slave/master but only the western digital one has jumper settings, (new hdd) and the old one doesn't (seagate barracuda 7200.7). i had both hdd's hooked up and windows saw it but when i went and found my folder, it said it was empty and it wasn't accessible? (Access Denied) any help?

both ARE SATA

[bailey]

windows cannot read a ntfs file system
best to put the old drive back in as the only drive, and then run the install of the new motherboard drivers, then do a repair install of xp, then when everything is running good, use the mfg's software to transport the data from the old drive to the new drive, then switch the drives and boot up with the new drive.
once that is done, you can then format the old drive for a second drive for storage.

[glc]

SATA drives do not use master/slave jumpering. Leave the jumpers alone.

Bailey is partially correct. If you installed XP on the new drive, it should be able to read the old drive fine, what you have is an ownership/permissions issue.

You can do what he suggested - remove the new drive and try to boot it up with the old drive. If it bluescreens, then boot with the XP CD, press F6 to install SATA drivers if necessary, go into Setup, and when it finds the existing XP install, tell it to do a repair. This will get your old copy of Windows running on the old drive in the new computer. Then you can use cloning software to copy everything to the new drive and then remove the old drive.

If you would rather keep the fresh load of XP that you already have, to gain access to the old drive, you have to take ownership of all the files and folders and grant Everyone full control. The below link explains how - note that if you have XP Home, you MUST log in in SAFE MODE as Administrator to do this.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;308421

[presence06]

thank you guys.

i used the tutorial and got the files i needed

thanks again