Old hard drive installation

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• new hard drive - what is the difference in performance between the new installation of Windows 7 or a clone of old hard drive?

  I get a new hard Hard Drive (SSD).  The new disc is the same size as my existing SATA drive.  I can do either a new

  the installation of Windows 7 or a clone old hard drive?  I would prefer to clone the old hard drive and keep all my settings, etc.   It's empirical data on the performance difference between a new installation of Windows 7 or to continue with the Windows 7 which was 3 or 4 years ago.

  I know the conventional wisdom is that the new installation is faster, but, no matter who actually tested and compared the differences?  I know I'll get better performance of the SSD the SATA drive, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle to do a fresh install and redo all my programs and settings.

  Others that the performance of the SSD you should not see any differences.  If you do, you can always do a clean installation later.

• try re-installing CS5 on a new hard drive... I forgot to remove my CS5 on the old hard drive... I have the CD of installation of CS5... I've updated from CS3 and have two serial numbers

  try re-installing CS5 on a new hard drive... I forgot to remove my CS5 on the old hard drive... I have the CD of installation of CS5... I've updated from CS3 and have two serial numbers...

  I use a PC...

  Please check Adobe - Creative Suite 5 Master Collection: System requirements and try to install the product, please let us know if you are unable to activate. You can check: error: "this serial number is not for a product calling it" | CS6 cs5, CS5.5,

  I hope this helps.

• My motherboard has exploded and I have the hard drive. How can I copy the address book for a new installation on a new computer from the old hard drive?

  I have the old hard drive in a USB enclosure and connected to the computer again. I have installed firefox and you need to have the address book (critical) copied and inserted information from address book on the new computer. I hope that there is a file I can replace easily?

  Firefox send an e-mail, it's strictly a web browser.

  If you use Firefox to access your e-mail, you use "webmail". You must seek assistance from your service provider or a forum for this service.

  If your problem is with Mozilla Thunderbird, check out this forum for support.
  https://support.mozillamessaging.com/.../home
  
  or this one
  
  http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39

• Transfer emails from old hard drive

  I have the profile of an old e-mail account folder and try to open with an installation of thunderbird on a new system.

  Ideally I would have just opened them when starting from the old hard drive, but for some reason any that it does not start properly (as soon as it starts to book all the USB devices power off).

  Because it's just the profile folder and not a file exported or saved, I can't get anything in the new installation of Thunderbird to recognize the file. I think that all the data will be there (the file is has a few GB), I just need to be able to read.

  I tried the methods already in the support pages, but they seem to require you to have exported preemptively profile or have something installed on the old hard drive to facilitate the transfer.

  Any help is appreciated massively

  See you soon,.

  -Va

  Then can mark you the thread as "Solved" Please?
  Thank you.

• Recovery of my favorites from an OLD hard drive to a new PC

  I took the old drive from the laptop and put it in a USB enclosure, so I now my whole OLD hard drive as drive E... .but no applications will run in fact of course.
  Then... I want to find my OLD profile on drive E (especially the bookmarks) and the copy and put it in my NEW installation of firefox on the C drive. The two computers were / are running Win7 64 bit if that helps.
  Thank you very much in advance for any help.

  If explore you the following folder, it should contain your profiles:

  drive:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
  

  You may need to display the hidden files and folders: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

  If you find more than one folder, try the one with the most recent modification date and look inside a folder bookmarkbackups. Here you should find the individual .json files with dates in file names. The most recent copy to a more convenient location like your Documents folder. Then, you can use the steps in the following article to restore to your new installation of Firefox:

  • Restore backup bookmarks or move them to another computer

  Please note that the restore process completely replaces all you have in your new Firefox. If you need to preserve the new bookmarks you have saved, you can use the import/export process, as described in this post: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/962313#answer-446564

  A little luck?

  Note that, there could be other data you want to recover. This article can help: recovering data from an old profile.

• 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.

• Replacing an old hard drive causes the system had become unbootable

  OK, here's the scenario.

  Background:
  My old computer with Windows XP has been installed on a hard disk of 40 GB. Later through subsequent updates, I bought the upgrade Windows Vista Professional (retail) and proceeded to install Vista on a brand new 250 GB hard drive. Initially, he had some problems I did a clean install with upgrade to Vista, but then with the help of Mircrosoft support (and several hours of reformats and corrupt the old installation of XP) managed to get Vista installed hard disk new and active. I kept the old drive hard in the computer for about a year, but then noticed that he was starting to get out. I moved all the old information off the drive and recently bought a 1 TB drive to replace. I deleted everything that above with the exception of a few remaining files that won't let me not delete - documents and settings and startup records, respectively.

  Problem:
  When I take the old 40 GB hard drive to reside on Windows XP, my computer when startup is unable to find a drive it can boot from. Under disk management, it is labeled as system - even if the windows directory is on a completely separate drive. My intention was to replace the old hard drive, but I can't get my computer to recognize that it is not on the system drive somehow.

  Question:
  Is it possible to change what hard drive is recognized as a system disk or make sure I can get out the old hard drive and still keep my bootable system?

  Hello Lightningfst,

  Thanks for posting in the Microsoft answers Forum.  First off I would say that, before trying any of the suggestions I'm about to do that you completely back up the contents of the drive with Vista Business as a precaution.  The first suggestion I have is to copy the MBR of the disk of 40G to 250G drive.  It could be as simple as that.  However, when Windows sees a drive and initializes it, Windows writes a serial number of 4 bytes in the MBR (sector 0) of the disc. No matter what partition you create on this disc is then associated with the serial number and the drive letter that the partition is given.

  When you then progress to clone a boot partition on the new disk with a cloning program that does not copy the MBR, the serial number of the old drive is not copied to the new disk, so the new disk retains its serial number Windows has seen before.

  When Windows starts on the new disc, he sees the serial number of the new drive and guess the partition that is on that now belongs to the previously selected drive letter which is almost always not C:. Since installing Windows starts on C:, there is now no C: drive when Windows starts. Trying to connect allows Windows attempts to load the user from C:\Documents and Settings\registry, and the C: drive is not there, so Windows simply to abandon the attempt to logon and closes a session back.

  If this happens to you after copy the MBR of the disk of 40G to 150G Unit let us know and we can help you solve the problems that.  I hope this information is useful.

  Thank you

  Jack

  Jack
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• I see an activation which invites when I enter my product key says that's an upgrade install not the device, this worked fine on my old hard drive.

  Prompt for activation!

  Changed the hd on my pc and upgrade to ultimate version so I had to install xp first.  Now, I see an activation which invites when I get home my says product key is for upgrade not clean installation, it worked well on my old hard drive, there is no option in the wizard product activation phone how to turn it on

  Update install requires that the eligible previous operating system is installed and activated until the key is working.

  Yu seem to have correctly installed the OS upgrade - and it will never work without assistance.

  If - and only if - you have a valid COA sticker on your computer, you can try either by calling the line Activation, as suggested by Riz_Ford, or you can also try the method of double-install from here...

  http://www.winsupersite.com/article/Windows-7/clean-install-Windows-7-with-upgrade-media

  Note that the same procedure applies for WIn 7 for Vista.

• need to change my old hard drive and install vista, a new moved it to the new hard drive

  change from my old hard drive with a new one.  Vista installs in the new hard drive

  How to clean install Vista:

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/918884

  MS advice on the conduct of clean install.

  http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/vista_clean_installation.htm

  A tutorial on the use of a clean install

  http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_install_03.asp

  Super Guide Windows Vista Installation

  After installation > go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer/notebook > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > get latest Vista drivers for it > download/install them.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• New computer, old hard drive. Activation?

  I got an old compaq presario 5140 or something and it came with vista on a hard drive of preset. I recently built a new computer with parts and essentially have a new computer. I decided since my old hard drive worked well and was compatible SATA, I want to just install it in the new computer, too.  Now, windows tells me to restart my activation key is not valid, and I need to get a new (I him I had preinstalled about 7 years I have therefore had no idea here), buy a new key or visit support.
  So I ask here what I have to do. I need my computer today for a job if I got quick responses would be greatly appreciated!

  You cannot transfer a preinstalled license.

  OEM and retail licenses:

  If your computer is pre-installed with Vista, it is classified as an OEM license and is not transferable.

  The license of Vista OEM is related to the original computer it is installed on and dies with the computer.
  You cannot transfer it to another computer/laptop

  If a license of Vista at retail, you can transfer it to another computer/laptop.
  But it can only be installed on one computer at a time.

  A single license is a single Installation.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Old computer is dead, HARD drive still alive. Can I install windows 7 on your new computer without formatting the old HARD drive?

  My old desktop computer recently died of a motherboard failure.  As I understand it, I should be able to install windows 7 from my old computer to the new, but only if I delete the old installation.

  Does this mean that I have to format the old HARD drive?  Because the old computer HARD drive seems to be alive, I would retrieve the data on a new machine first, before I have to format and I need to install windows on the new computer to get the data from the old HARD drive.

  No, it is taken on trust that the old installation is no longer active, there is no mechanism to remove the old license in order to make a valid new. Remove the Windows directory (or rename) makes the old system inoperative.

  You find that the automatic authentication fails on new construction and need to call the licensing Center to check that you have only one installation. Apart from the OEM rules if a license has been activated too often, and recently, it fails in a 1 time.

• My old computer died and I want to save filed from my old hard drive to my new computer

  Hello

  My old computer died, and I purcassed a new p6230y of computer a HP. I installed my old hard drive in to the new computer as a second HD in hard drive Bay 2. I would like to transfer my files from the old HD to the new HD. I would then format the old HD and use it internally as a second HD. After the installation of the drive hard I can't find the old man (HD) on my computer. I see that the old HD has been installed successfully by running a diagnostic of the car. All this out OK. I can't access the old HD in some way other than the quotes, and when I start the computer I can see that a second HD is installed. What I am doing wrong? And what can I do to access the info on the old HD and use it as a second HD in my new computer? Am I missing some step in the implementation / install? Help.

  Thank you so much. My knowledge of windows 7 is very limited. You helped save all my files on my computer. Thank you once again.

• I have adobe CS6 on my old hard drive and I want to transfer more in my new hard drive. I don't have the disk that it came on more. How can I do this? also, I never put a single copy on a laptop and it is accepted 2... If this is important.

  I have adobe CS6 on my old hard drive and I want to transfer more in my new hard drive. I don't have the disk that it came on more. How can I do this? also, I never put a single copy on a laptop and it is accepted 2... If this is important.

  Disable (help > deactivate) on your old hd.

  then install it using the installation files and your serial number.

  Available downloadable Setup files:

  • Suites and programs: CC 2014 | CC | CS6 | CS5.5 | CS5 | CS4, CS4 Web Standard | CS3
  • Acrobat: XI, X | 9,8 | 9 standard
  • First Elements: 13 | 12 | 11, 10 | 9, 8, 7
  • Photoshop Elements: 13 | 12 | 11, 10 | 9,8,7
  • Lightroom: 5.7.1. 5 | 4 | 3 | 2.7 (win),2.7 (mac)
  • Captivate: 8 | 7 | 6 | 5
  • Contribute: CS5 | CS4, CS3

  Download and installation help links Adobe

  Help download and installation to Prodesigntools links can be found on the most linked pages.  They are essential; especially steps 1, 2 and 3.  If you click on a link that does not have these listed steps, open a second window by using the link to Lightroom 3 to see these "important Instructions".

  window using the Lightroom 3 link to see these "important Instructions".

• 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