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• Copy hard drive XP on a Vista hard drive

  Hello

  I had recently an old computer go on me which contained important information on the hard drive.  Motherboard of the computer lights.  So I tried just to connect the hard drive on my other computer that has the Windows Vista operating system, it would not come.  I was wondering if there is a way to copy the files on the hard drive in Windows Vista.

  Currently, our broken computer is at Best Buy and they want $1,500 to retrieve the information.

  Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

  Monday, January 17, 2011, 01:38:25 + 0000, dillon.bellamy wrote:

  Please tell us what means «go on me» Exactly what went wrong and how
  She didn't. Depending on what is the problem, you may or may not be
  able to recover the data.

  Well, I'm an amateur when it comes to talk about computers, but I'll give it my best.

  I certainly don't want to give you a hard time on the subject, but let
  tell me that the language that you use when you ask a question is very
  important. If you call something by the wrong name, you run the
  decided to risk of confusion between those who try to help you and so
  getting the wrong advice.

  It's far from over, but you would like to read this article I
  writings on the computer language and some of the commonly used terms:
  http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=335

  The power button not turn on the computer, but there is a light on the motherboard that lights up.  I don't really know how it stop working, just one day, it won't turn.  I'll try a new power supply and test this possibility.

  "How have you tried? You plug the data cable and power
  cable? If you it subservient to the other drive, you set the jumper on
  the discs correctly to the master and slave? »

  I plugged the hard drive with the data cable and the power cable.

  Ok.

  I don't know what you mean by setting the jumper on the discs correctly to master and slave.  After plugging the older hard drive of the computer in the new computer, it tried to start the computer in
  Windows XP and reboot before you go always to the screen.

  Assuming that these are IDE drives, they have jumpers on them. If the
  adding disk is connected to a cable with another drive on it, in most
  one of the disks must be set as master, the other as
  Slave, with the cavaliers. If you don't know what it is, the reason
  the problem is most likely that the jumpers are positioned incorrectly.

  Read here:
  http://www.ehow.com/how_6031_change-master-slave-designation.html

  and here:
  http://www.pcguide.com/ref/HDD/if/IDE/confJumpering-c.html

  Ken Blake (MS-MVP)

• Add windows copy hard drive?

  Hello

  I would buy a hard drive and add it to my pc so I can use this drive only for games.  My question is can I make a copy of my existing windows 8 or 8.1.

  and put it on that drive?  If so would not even better performance a game on a hard drive with just windows running?  hard drive (the original) always would execute when I start my pc and open the ter (new) hard drive? any help is appreciated.

  THX

  Tomasz

  Tomasz Hello,

  Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Community forum.

  The thing that you are trying to run is technically not possible, and I'm sorry to inform you that, you can do that. Technically, you have two installs and need 2 licenses. Each hard disk and each partition on a hard drive are considered to be a separate computer.

  1 OVERVIEW.
  a. software. The software includes operating system software. This software does not work
  include Windows Live services. Windows Live is a service offered by Microsoft under a
  separate agreement.
  b. license model. The software is licensed on a basic computer copy. A computer is a
  physical hardware system with internal storage capable of running the software. A
  hardware partition or blade is considered be a separate computer.

  2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
  a. one copy per computer. You can install one copy of the software on a single computer. That
  computer is "licensed computer.

  Additional information:

  You can also check the FAQ listed below, although the FAQ about Windows 7, but the information in the FAQ applies to Windows 8.

  FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions from Installation Windows 7 & responses

  Hope that the information provided is useful. Let us know if you have any concerns related to Windows.

  Best regards,,

• PowerCLI syntax: copy-hard drive

  Hello

  I installed the latest version and tried to copy a hard drive. (I am mistaken, this hard drive copy should act as vmkfstools-i?)

  You have sombody it works? I always get:

  Hard disk copy: 22.01.2010 08:30:20 521d8bb4-ac7b-6588-94c0-095c593053d8 of hard disk copy for the entity failed with the followi

  ng message: "General failure caused by file.

  One of the provided parameters is not valid.

  Command:

  Get-disk hard testbox.foobar.com | Hard disk copy "[Datastore] Testfolder/testcopy.vmdk" <-data store is in parentheses

  The folder is created...

  Just a guess: could be a problem if I do a:

  Get-hard drive | get-member translates: VMware.VimAutomation.Client20.FlatHardDiskImpl

  "and waiting for the copy: VMware.VimAutomation.Types.HardDisk.

  See also: (these two examples do not work for me)

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/wintk40u1/HTML/index.html

  Would be great if someone could help me that I can copy a disk via powershell.

  Concerning

  It work?

  Get-VM | Get-HardDisk | Copy-HardDisk -DestinationPath "[ds1] Test/diskcopy" -DestinationStorageFormat Thin
  

  Is the hard drive of already thin origin perhaps?

• copy hard drive to compact disk__

  easy way to make backup discs

  I don't know exactly what you're asking.  If you want to know how to prepare a CD (I recommend CD - RW, so they can be reused) for use in a backup, there is really no preparation needed (assuming that the CD is formatted - otherwise just the format).

  Here is an article from the base to make backups that should help you get started: http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-backup-your-data.  Backup to a CD isn't really more difficult that the backup on an external HARD disk or a second internal HDD - it you just press different buttons during the procedure to indicate that it is a backup CD (and correctly label the CD if you know the right order in case you need to restore).

  This is a GREAT article on the backup and restore processes in Vistahttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.backup.aspx , but he won't go into detail about the restoration process - considering almost as easy, of course.  But it teaches you a lot about what is possible and how to do it.

  What type of backup you can do depends on the version of Vista you are using (which did you not).  Because of that, I can't really give you targeted procedures - but those above should do as well anyway. Vista Basic provides very basic functionality.  Vista Home Premium offers a bit more, but still don't offer not a full image backups.  To achieve this, you need Vista Business, Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate Edition.  To protect your backups with BitLocker, you need Vista Ultimate.  There are 3 available third-party solutions, but Vista can basically do the work (depending on the version).  If you want more on 3rd-party solutions, after return.

  If you have specific questions as you go along, post them and we'lll try to get you answers.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

  Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• Copy-hard drive when you are connected to vCenter

  Y at - it a command to copy a virtual disk when you are connected to the server vCenter instead of being directly connected to each ESX Server?

  Thank you

  KeV

  You can use the cmdlet Copy-DatastoreItem but there are a few known issues with this cmdlet when the current generation.

  Or you can use the underlying CopyDatastoreFile_Task method.

  Note that you need to copy all the files (header & flat file) that make up a vDisk yourself!

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• Hard drive HP M8530F crashed

  Works on HP M8530F for a friend - the drive hard seagate is crushed so I bought a new Western Digital sata.  I run a copy of vista Home premium (not recovery, but a bare copy) hard drive is coming not in vista install screen and keeps asking for a driver for him?

  I never came across this before and its really annoying!  Generally you plug the hard drive into windows install, then you install all the drivers for it (hard drives are plug and play, I thought)?  It reads the hard drive very well in bios and also if I plug it into a USB-sata converter.  I also ran UBUNTU and it installed without any problems if the drive / motherboard seems to work very well.    Any ideas?

  Thank you!

  Well I thought about it.  What I needed was the driver for the motherboard sata... never had to do this before installing windows before - in general, it is automatic.  So I downloaded the driver from HP.com .exe then extract this files with universal Extractor program to get the driver .inf files.   Then I loaded on a USB .inf files and loaded the drivers on the hard drive using the windows install screen.

  Windows is now running perfectly.   Not sure why this stupid motherboard requires all them that - guess that's what I get for not having the original recovery disks.

• Add copied hard disk (VMDK) on a virtual machine

  I'm new to PowerCLI and can't seem to find information on this "new" process

  I'm looking to automate the addition of a cloned hard disk (VMDK) VM (1) to an another VM (2) existing.  I figured out how "Hard drive copy" VM1 VM2 data store, but can't the formula to VM2.

  To copy the disc, I use the following command:

  $vm1 = "name of vm1.

  $vm2 = "name ofthe virtual machine 2 .

  $ds = "datastor" e

  Get-disk hard - VM $vm1 | Where {$_.} CapacityGB - lt 10} | Copy-hard drive - DestinationPath ' [$ds] vm2 $/ $vm2 - 2.vmdk '-Force

  In fact, here is what it looks like:

  Get-disk hard - VM System1. Where {$_.} CapacityGB - lt 10} | Copy-hard drive - DestinationPath "[NFS2] System2/System2 - 2.vmdk '-Force

  MISTLETOE we do today via vCenter is - change the s parameter > Hardware tab > Add > hard drive > use an existing virtual disk > Browse > check the virtual device node (SCSI 0: (x) - and it works.)  I can start VM2 and the Windows operating system works very well and everyone is happy.

  To set the hard drive via PowerCLI, I use the following command:

  New-disk-hard - VM $vm2 - DiskPath "[$ds] $vm2/vm2 $-2.vmdk»

  In fact, here is what it looks like:

  New- hard drive - VM System2 - DiskPath ' [NFS2] System2/System2-2.vmdk '

  When I run the command, I see vCenter 'work' and then error with Incompatible device support specified for the device '0'.  I have ready many forums reporting the error when you perform a RDM or tries to add a secondary SCSI controller, I don't want to do.

  A few things to note:

  Must be on the default 0 (Virtual LSI Logic SAS) SCSI controller

  Virtual device node must be SCSI 0:2 (it would be a third drive on the system)

  The data store is a different data store that the other disks attached to VM2 (discs 1 and 2 are on NFS1, new drive would be on NFS2).

  When I first copy the disc, it indicates the persistence as unknown, do not know if this is a factor. Any help would be appreciated.

  ESXi, 5.0 Update 1 (5.0.0,821926)

  PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2

  Thank you

  SC

  Lol, I'll type slowly

  No, I'm afraid that we cannot change the API, or the coding behind the cmdlet.

  But we can call the APIs directly from PowerCLI, something like this for example

  function add-HD {  param($VMname, $Filename, $Controller)
  
    $dsName = $Filename.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')
  
    $vm = (Get-VM $VMname).ExtensionData  $ds = (Get-Datastore -Name $dsName).ExtensionData
  
    foreach($dev in $vm.config.hardware.device){    if ($dev.deviceInfo.label -eq $Controller){      $CntrlKey = $dev.key    }  }  $Unitnumber = 0  $DevKey = 0
  
    foreach($dev in $vm.config.hardware.device){    if ($dev.controllerKey -eq $CntrlKey){      if ($dev.Unitnumber -gt $Unitnumber){$Unitnumber = $dev.Unitnumber}      if ($dev.key -gt $DevKey) {$DevKey = $dev.key}    }  }
  
    $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec  $spec.deviceChange = @()  $spec.deviceChange += New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec  $spec.deviceChange[0].device = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.datastore = $ds.MoRef  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.fileName = $Filename  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.diskMode = "independent_persistent"  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.key = $DevKey + 1  ## The UnitNUmber SCSIID 7 is reserved for the Controller - so ignore it and skip to 8.  if ($Unitnumber -eq 6) {$Unitnumber = $Unitnumber + 1}  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.unitnumber = $Unitnumber + 1  $spec.deviceChange[0].device.controllerKey = $CntrlKey  $spec.deviceChange[0].operation = "add"  $vm.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)}
  
  Add-HD -VMname "System2" -FileName "[NFS2] System2/System2-2.vmdk" -Controller "SCSI Controller 0"
  

  I created a function called Add - HD, which will do more or less the same thing, just as the cmdlet New-hard drive when it is used with the name parameter file, but instead to call the cmdlet, the function calls the API ReconfigVM_Task directly.

  The downside of this is that we will have to compile the parameter passed to this method.

  In fact, most of the PowerCLI cmdlets do exactly the same thing, they call the API methods.

  You can view these calls when you draw a cmdlet with the tool of Onyx .

• file .avi and .mov on iMac changed in .m4v when they are copied to the external hard drive. I will be able to open these files on other devices like a Windows PC?

  file .avi and .mov on iMac changed in .m4v when they are copied to the external hard drive. I will be able to open these files on other devices like a Windows PC?

  FWIW, do not change the extensions of file simply by copying the files to an external drive.

• Copy of photos and vidoes on external hard drive to Windows import

  Hello world

  & Thank you in advance for your help!

  I want to export my external library from the Photos App on a hard disk and then import them under MS Windows.

  The library contains photos and videos. So far, I have tried two ways:

  1 copy the entire library on an external hard drive

  2. in the Photos app, select all the pictures and videos to YouTube and copy on the external hard drive

  However, no matter what I tried not all my photos and none of my videos have been exported.

  Can someone help me please!

  Thank you

  Alex

  Here you have a guide for moving files from Mac to Windows PC: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/move-mac-files-windows-pc

  Make sure that your external drive is formatted in BOLD ex.

• How to copy all files portable for hard drive TB mail

  I need to make a copy of all my emails and their respective folders on my laptop hard drive. How can I do?

  Hello Diego,.
  I found the problem, once I cleaned up all the "inbox" and "Sent", there was nothing in the files so that they are not show. When I sent an email, low and behold, there was the sent folder.
  Thanks for your help.
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• How to backup / copy all photos to icloud on external hard drive?

  -J' I 20 000 photos stored in iCloud

  -I want to copy/save all THE photos of my external hard drive 2T & store in a separate file for custody.

  How can I accomplish this?

  Thank you

  Zerna.

  IF you mean you want to download them on iCloud.com, you can go to the albums > all the photos where you can quickly select multiple photos and upload them. I don't pretend do that you it in batches but rather than try it all at once.

• Cannot copy old backup on new hard drive

  I can't copy my old backup to a new hard drive directory by dragging the old new th diving in such Finder recommended by Apple.  There seems to be some controversy about how to accomplish this task.  Instructions would be appreciated.

  Did you follow the following steps:

  https://support.Apple.com/en-GB/HT202380

  to the letter? If so, what was the error message?

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• Really slow copying files to iMac to Seagate external HARD drive

  I have an iMac mid-2011 running El Capitan, and I'm having a problem copying through large files to my TB 5 Seagate external hard drives.  The copy process is so slow that it is useless to try to back up files more.  Does anyone know what I can do to fix this problem?  I found a thread from 2013, mentioned that Spotlight indexing is the problem, but no luck so far.  Anyone got any ideas?  Thank you!!!

  What size is the drive? How are you connected to it? How big are the files?

• Gets the air space, copy Photos on external hard drive.

  If I copy and paste the picture on a USB application (which works very well, I have all my pictures) is the photo still be there when I open the app copied on my computer once I have them deleted on my Mac? I would like to remove all the photos from the first photo app that I have to make room, but keep photos somewhere (not iCloud).

  I would also like to know if after I open the old one and adds new photos of Photos on the Photos app, which is now on my external hard drive. (somewhat like fusion of the old and the new) Is this possible?

  Thank you very much!

  Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)

  1. exit Photos

  2 copy the library of your folder on the external drive.

  3 press and hold the option (or alt) key while launching Photos. In the menu that appears, select "Choose Library" and navigate to the new location. From there it will be the default location of your library.

  4 test the library, and when you are sure that all is well, trash on your HD internal for free space.

  Concerning

  TD