Moving files and programs on an old hard drive.

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• Can I transfer files and settings from my old hard drive after replacing with a new one?

  the old hard drive developed a kind of problem and was still running out of space. I replaced and recharged my CD XP. the old hard drive is still readable via USB adapter system and I want to what I can from him toward the new restore disc. the old drive is not in a computer. can I use FAST to transfer the old disk directly? I can't find this scenario in all the help files.

  Thank you.

  CB

  I'm sorry, but this is not possible.  FAST is available only when Windows XP is actually running on the hard drive. Boulder computer Maven
  Most Microsoft Valuable Professional

• moving documents and settings from the old hard drive to a hard drive nine folder

  I have a new computer. I installed a hard drive from my old computer to the new, which is not the one that starts more. But. There still my documents and settings directory. Because windows is so smart and "documents and settings is not a folder more", it won't let me access my old Vista documents and settings folder that is bloody well a real folder. I am so bored on this subject. Any ideas what to do?

  No need to get angry - just don't take possession of your records:

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7network/thread/24bdf172-2DBC-43b8-995d-a99b6a81413c/

• Find bookmarks and passwords on the old hard drive

  I watched an attempt all suggestions re. This and cannot locate my favorites and passwords on the old hard drive.
  Hard drive is still connected to my computer, even if the PC had a mother brd, the CPU and the RAM upgrade: because of the upgrade failed to load window, if the Windows file is always available. New HARD drive with windows installed, install again. 11.0 ff. The following search suggestions, I find the new profile, but not that of the old drive. I can access my Mozilla folder in Program Files (x 86), but are now looking for appdata etc.
  Yes, I know, it was really stupid to not save this kind of things before the installation of new equipment, but do not think that the material change was hose go my W7 install so bad. Thanks for any help in advance.

  AppData is a hidden file, you need to enable hidden files and folders may be to find. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-see-hidden-files-in-windows/.

  After finding the appdata folder, read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles and recovery of data from an old profile.

• I have blown my motherboard on an old computer and hooked up my old hard drive to the new computer and want to transfer my favorites on the new drive but cannot find where they are located on the old drive - any help?

  My motherboard went bad on my old computer, but the hard drive was OK. I bought a new computer and plugged my old hard drive to it via a usb adapter. I would like to import or copy my favorites from the old hard drive to my new, but I can't find where they are. I was unable to determine the search for articles on the web. Be advised that my old hard drive is basically nothing more than a place of storage for files at this point. My old operating system is windows XP, and my new system is Windows Home Premium.

  https://support.Mozilla.com/en-us/KB/recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

  Your old profile is located here in Win XP and W2K:
  
  drive: \Documents and Settings\username Windows login\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile_name

• Remove earlier / released old system files and Microsoft applications to wipe hard drive.

  This weekend I had a BSOD problem. Fortunately I was able to recover the system due to the construction, it supports routines in XP. Now I try however to condition my system to minimize a reoccurrence by cleaning the system of updating drivers, to eliminate the unnecessary s/w and wipe my hard drive. Is safe for me to remove earlier versions of the update of the s/w Microsoft for office, MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2, Windows Internet Explorer 8.0 s/w updates, updates to Windows XP, Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and updated security system? I could recover valuable space on my hard drive. Thank you.

  PS. is it possible to transfer all the information it is to say, s/w, docs, files, etc. of a hard drive on a bigger hard drive?

  I'll answer the part about the updates Windows and framework-

  Remove the old Windows updates: -.

  Folders that have uninstall as part of the name (for example $NtUninstallKB282010$ who reside in C:\windows (hidden files) are window Hot difficulty updating folders/files) can be removed safely (providing ever, you wish to uninstall the updates). I recommend you leave these records for a period of at least one month to make sure that the update works correctly.

  These updates can be removed individually or together. To learn more about the update/s go on:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/xxxxxx
  NB: XXXXXX = the actual number, not to mention the "Q" or "Ko."

  Once you have removed the uninstall folders/files, then go to control panel, add/remove programs. Select the title of the corresponding Windows fix on the folder/file of the patch you just deleted, and select Delete. You will get a Windows error. This is because you deleted the uninstall folder/files. Simply choose OK and the entry will be removed from the Add/Remove Programs list.

  Don't NOT delete the folder $ $hf_mig

  Cleaning after installation of SP2
  http://aumha.org/win5/a/sp2faq.php#after

  and/or

  XP SP3: Post Installation Cleanup
  http://aumha.NET/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=33827

  Please note this is only for Windows XP and is not on Vista or Windows 7

  FRAME: -.

  Aaron Stebner's blog: Mailbag: need should I even older versions of the .NET Framework on my system after installation of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1? :
  http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2009/04/20/9557946.aspx

  I would like to leave these files only "Office MSXML 4.0 SP2, updates of Windows Internet Explorer 8.0 s/w".

  TaurArian [MVP] 07/01/2005-30/06/2011. The information has been provided * being * with no guarantee or warranty. What works for some, may not always work for others.

• Disk utility finds several files and folders after formatting external hard drive

  It is somewhat an Enigma to me. I bought an external hard drive that I wanted to use to store my Time Machine backups. I formatted in Mac OS extended (journaled case-sensitive) without any problems, however, I noticed that disk utility indicated that I had 18 and 59 files (space used = 448,1 Mb)!  I ejected the disc, it reconnected and utility found 64-19 records to disc now! How is that possible? What is going on?  I used the 'diskutil list' command on the Terminal, and I found the following:

  / dev/disk2

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 500,1 disk2

  1: disk2s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_HFS disk2s2 backup 499,8 Gb

  I see there are 2 partitions, even if I made a partition during formatting of the drive.  I don't know if this 'normal' or if I'm doing something wrong. I would be very happy any help you can give! Thank you very much!

  It's normal. new disc format have information. When you start the firmware queries drives to see what is on them to find if they ae bootable

• How to transfer all files and programs from old HDD to new HDD?

  I would like to change the HARD drive of my laptop to one with more capacity. Is there a way for me to transfer all my current content to the new the old HARD drive without having to re - install all programs / operating system?

  Well, the simplest would be a backup image.

  I m using a 3rd party software. It s a Norton Ghost.
  This tool allows you to create an image of you HARD drive or simple partitions.
  I created an image file and stored on the external HARD drive.

  Then, I installed the new OS on the laptop, installed Norton Ghost and used the external HARD disk image file to restore all the files and programs again.

  But you don't need t to use the ghost there are many other applications to create an own google simple image

• How can I move the old hard drive to new programs.

  I tried to upgrade Windows 2000 Pro, XP Pro on my hard drive. XP would install, but would break to the BSOD with a STOP of the F4 code. BCupdate2 says that the startup code is up to date. NTDLR and boot.ini and NTDETECT.COM are present on the old hard drive. After 2 days of searching and trying different solutions, I bought a new hard drive and installed XP Pro top. System is now running. I want to make my programs from the old hard drive to the new hard disk as well as shortcuts, system settings, user accounts, and user data. I want the new HDD to resemble the old hard disk would look like had XP installed successfully. I have a utility provided with the hard drive, but it says it will take the BONES of the old drive and put it on the new drive that would make my non-operational system. Any help? The history of the old drive is 64 XP was installed originally, but some of my programs wouldn't not below so I installed Windows 2000 Pro. Which was great for several years, but the new versions of the software I use has stopped running less than 2000.

  I'm sorry, but it is not possible to move programs from one operating system to another.  You must reinstall the programs.

  Your data files must be in the Documents and Settings\ folder from the old hard drive and you can copy them to the folder on the Windows XP system.

• The files cannot be copied and transferred to an external hard drive

  Hi, I would like to transfer all my files and documents in my pc to an external hard drive. I copied all the files and paste them into my hard drive. However, all the files have to be shortened in the external hard drive. Files saved the drive D cannot be copied, either.

  What can I do with the problem please?

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  Ideas:

  • You have problems with programs
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  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem
  You must save the files in folders, then select all, then hit Ctrl + C and then goes on your external storage drive and hit ctrl V
   
  copy the folder my documents of the office will be only copy the shortcut, goin the folder, and then copy everything
   
  or use MS backup, see here

  We are allowed to have links in our signature? Asking for official answers.

• How can I find my favorites on an old hard drive?

  I bought a new computer and installed Firefox. Firefox has also been installed on my old computer, and I have the old hard drive connected to my new computer as drive E. I would get my favorites copied from the old drive to my current profile on my new C drive, but I can't locate the old favorites. On the old computer, I think that I was using Vista, but I don't know which version of Firefox. Here's research that I tried (should be view hidden folders):

  JSON (a lot of results have been found, but for other programs only).
  places.SQLite (no result)
  bookmarkbackups (no result)
  mrv9503t.default (no results. It is apparently the name of the file in question on my NEW computer).
  .default (338 results?)
  %AppData%\Mozilla (no result)
  %AppData%\microsoft\windows\sendto (12 results, all related to Windows)
  E:\Users\ < user > \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ < profile > (no result)
  E:\Users\ < user > (no result)
  E:\Users (3 results, but none are named 'user')

  I thought about it. I didn't not < user > and < profile > refers to the names on my computer. Once occurred to me, I managed to restore from a backup by following the instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

• My old computer crashed. I was able to connect his old hard drive as an external drive to my new computer. I would like to get all my old favorites (there are no prior backup on the old disk).

  Is there a file where the bookmarks are stored which I can copy from the old drive to the new to restore old bookmarks? Thank you!

  (I still have the original files of Firefox on the old hard drive, including one that presumably contains all my old favorites).

  https://support.Mozilla.com/en-us/KB/recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

• Comment to recover missing components after having moved from "Adobe" from program files and program files on another hard drive internal?

  Hello

  I know that the title is long, but I'll try to be clear. I am currently working a lot on Premiere Pro CS6, since I else riding between movies and my drive Windows C is saturated. Jso got the real good idea to create an Adobe folder on one of my other internal drives and y 'cut and paste' (the thing never to do...) "Adobe" from program files and program files, in order to address space. So I created a file Program Files and another program with them each in a subfolder 'Adobe'. Following this bad initiative, opening again my firstsoftware, you can imagine that I had several bugs no one telling me that it lacked components (obviously) and my renderings, which once on two resulted in a "the software has stopped Monday and needs to close" (trickier).

  I have the coup d'etat switched back the folders on drive C (story of a little more drive the nail), the missing components error message no longer appears, however problems rendering and stop persistent software.  Knowing that about 15 GB is miraculously freed himself... not what is more difficult, but also probably explains the bugs...:)

  My question is the following should I uninstall and reinstall (Creative suite) where there's a you it another solution pour everything in order? Knowing it will take anyway that my C drive is dé-sature a bit.

  Thanking you sincerely pour your help, your guidance, your time.

  You cannot move a folder from one drive to another program (as you know) because that destroys the links that the operating system must have in order to run a program

  Disable this feature to unlock your serial number... Uninstall... Install fresh... also, the Adobe programs do not LIKE to install other drivers

  Move the data files to another disk to free up space on your C drive

  C drive space http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1007934?tstart=0 see answer 4 for the parameter that you must manually change... and then delete the old temporary files

• I want to back up files and programs to an external 500 GB external hard drive with USB 2.0 connection. How can I do this?

  original title: Windows XP USB 2.0 HD backup

  I have a Dell Dimension 8100 2002 with 80 GB C and 200 GB drive F drive.  I want to back up files and programs to an external 500 GB external hard drive with USB 2.0 connection.  How can I do this?  Do I need special software to do this?  I have Windows XP Home Edition.  If I need additional software, what software recommend you?  Now I have My Documents, my pictures, etc. on F: and programs on C: any help and suggestions would be appreciated.

  Thank you, Bob Morrow

  You have a few choices.  You can buy a 3rd party program to backup such as Acronis True Image or Norton Ghostor you can install the program NTBackup comes with XP Home, but is not installed by default:

  'How to install backup from the CD-ROM in Windows XP Home Edition'
    <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/302894 >

  HTH,
  JW

• Transfer all of the data files and program from old computer (Vista) to new computer (Windows 7)

  I've been using a Dell xps 420, 32-bit Vista since 2008. I just bought a new Dell xps-8700, 64-bit with windows 7 preinstalled. I would like to transfer all THE DATA, SETTINGS AND PROGRAMS from my old computer to the new computer. I bought a cable easy transfer of Dell for windows, xp, vista, windows 7 and 8. I read somewhere that the method of cable will transfer all my installed programs. Is this true?

  Can someone give me the better, easier and faster method available. At least give me a step by step procedure for this task.

  I am 81 years old and not too computer savvy. Any help you can give will BE appreciated.   bobnancy

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  Original title: Transfer all data and program files from old computer to the new computer

  I've been using a Dell xps 420, 32-bit Vista since 2008. I just bought a new Dell xps-8700, 64-bit with windows 7 preinstalled. I would like to transfer all THE DATA, SETTINGS AND PROGRAMS from my old computer to the new computer. I bought a cable easy transfer of Dell for windows, xp, vista, windows 7 and 8. I read somewhere that the method of cable will transfer all my installed programs. Is this true?

  No, it won't, it will transfer personal files and settings. You will have to reinstall your applications from the original installation files or install CDs and DVDs.

  Can someone give me the better, easier and faster method available. At least give me a step by step procedure for this task.

  If you really want to move your applications to the Vista computer, you will need to buy a commercial programs such as Laplink PC Mover that will allow you to move your programs:

  Laplink PCmover® | Laplink.com

  I am 81 years old and not too computer savvy. Any help you can give will BE appreciated.   bobnancy

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  Original title: Transfer all data and program files from old computer to the new computer