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• 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.

• Help to replace my old DVD drive with a new one.

  I have an Inspiron 6400 laptop and a defective DVD player! Can anyone suggest where I can find details to replace my old dvd drive wid a new? Is it safe to do it myself?

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• Transfer my hard drive to a new computer.

  I bought a new computer, and I want to transfer my hard drive on my new computer, so I can't transfer files, 1 and 2 to expand my space even more. When I installed the hard drive from my old to my new computer and boot from the old hard drive it breaks down and a blue screen on me, the blue screen does not last long enough for me to get this information. Can someone help me get my harddrive is over?

  I don't see any info regarding what computer or OS.  Installs Windows will do exactly as explained when moved to another computer dissimilar.  Need information on the old hard drive, start the operating system that came on the computer and then try to watch the news on the old hard drive.  Do not expect to be able to run all the programs that are installed on the hard drive of old.

  Take look at this guide: http://www.geckoandfly.com/5993/transfer-files-from-windows-xp-to-windows-7-with-windows-easy-transfer/

  If this does not help, Google is your friend.

• How can I recover my catalog on an external hard drive to a new computer?

  How can I recover my catalog on an external hard drive to a new computer?

  If that is the message, then you have NOT set the permissions correctly on the folder that contains the backup catalog file.

  Show us a screen shot of the permissions on this folder.

• Replacing the old hard drive to a new hard drive

  Hello!

  need help, I replaced my HARD drive with a new... How can I reinstall the existing operating system?

  What Type of format should, I used?

  Laptop model:

  HP Envy Sleekbook 4

  Windows 8 x 64

  The problem is that the BIOS key Code is Windows 8 and that you have installed Windows 8.1. The embedded key will not activate Windows 8.1. If you want to do this for free and use the key that came with the computer, you must install Windows 8, activate it (or it is activated) and then move to 8.1 by the store. Or just buy a key for 8.1 and use it to activate the installation you have.

• 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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• copy the data from the old HARD drive to a new HARD drive

  have old hard drive with data and op sys - must copy old hard drive data on the new hard drive WITHOUT copying op sys

  a simple way is the best way.

  Help, thanks

  Hello

  1. purchase a USB hard drive enclosure to put the old drive hard in > plug it into the new computer.

  Here is a video on how to do it:

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=SLLQusrmzvI

  2 slave the old hard drive in the new computer, so a new office.

  http://www.WikiHow.com/configure-master-and-slave-in-BIOS-for-two-hard-drive-disk-in-a-single-system

  See you soon.

• How to move data from the old hard drive to a new operating system, games, songs, vista etc.

  you want to install more hard drive. How can I move all of the data, os, games, music, etc.

  and have computer always starts.

  Hello

  You cannot move by themselves programs

  you need to reinstall it from the original media

  read this about moving everything, including the operating system

  or save your data and reinstall clean vista

  There are different ways to do

  hard drive manufacturers will normally provide the cloning software to move your operating system installed from the old to the new hard disk

  Search for information on this subject on their Web site

  If you have vista business or ultimate, you can use the builtin vista complete PC Backup to move

  read the information below

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial145.html

  or if you have vista home version you'll need 3rd party software

  link below is an example of this:

  http://www.Acronis.com/homecomputing/products/TrueImage/index.html

  also to put your machine how you bought:

  1. that vista is preinstalled, you should have a recovery on your old hard drive partition

  You can recovery disks to reinstall on your new hard drive

  ask the manufacturer of the machine how

  2. contact the computer manufacturer and ask them to send you to vista recovery disks to reinstall the operating system back as it was when you bought it

  they do it for a nominal cost of $

  3. or borrow a microsoft dvd vista

  Make sure that you borrow the correct 32-bit or 64-bit microsoft dvd to your computer

  they contain all versions of vista

  This is the product key that determines which version of vista is installed

  Save all data, because it will be lost, do the above

  How to make a backup of your data

  http://www.vista4beginners.com/how-to-backup-your-data

  How to restore your files

  http://www.vista4beginners.com/how-to-restore-files

• 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.

• How can I reinstall windows from my old hard drive on a new solid state drive?

  I'm considering buying an SSD and want to reinstall windows from my original hard drive (there is only a recovery partition on the original hard disk and no drive of the Windows operating system).  Anyone can guide me through the process or do I buy a new copy of Windows.

  Hello

  You can create a recovery from your old hard drive disk, or you need to contact HP technical support and order the part or click on the link given below on a command line drive by yourself.

  Create a set of recovery disks operating system

  Order of the recovery disc for Windows 7, Vista or XP

  
  

  
  

• connected my old hard drive to my new laptop but cannot find places.sqlite anywhere...

  When I find the default value of the record, there is no places.sqlite but only a folder called chrome inside...

  You will need to examine the data in the Application, or APPDATA (depending on the version of Windows you had on your old hard drive) for the profile folder (this is a hidden folder). https://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/KB/recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20Profile

• Can I just move my hard drive to a new computer, or what I have to cancel and re - authorize?

  I have CS6. My motherboard is dead (MacBook). I don't allow them out since the old box is dead. Approval 'lies' in the hard disk only, or it is attached to the motherboard somehow material? What is the correct procedure to move the drive to a new computer? Thank you!

  You must disable. Contact support to reset the activations if the old machine is inaccessible.

  Mylenium

• How can I transfer all the emails from the old hard drive to a new hard drive, Windows 7

  This transfer of e-mail has some quirk to it.  I am running Windows 7 Professional on a concert of 150 old drive raptor WD with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express.  I'll be installing Windows 7 Professional on the new drive and running Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and the need to pass all the information the browser and e-mails (with folders) to the appropriate place on the new drive.  I will use the same Windows 7 Professional disk for the operating system on the new drive, and then the old drive will be trashed as soon as the transfer is completed.  What is the best way to transfer the data since I use two different browsers and e-mail clients?  Do I first transfer all on the same type of browser and e-mail on the new disk and then import in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, or can I do a direct transfer to them?

  Hey there James :)

  If your original WD Raptor drive is in good health, have you considered cloning it to the new drive and so keeping everything as it is without the need to reinstall and backup and restore your data to the e-mail and other applications? I suggest to check out Acronis True Image WD Edition for this procedure: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=st8xw8
  I would first of all check if the drive is healthy, as the procedure could transfer some potential errors from the old drive to the new. I would recommend running tool WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic to check the status of the WD Raptor drive. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=p7VtBy

  After the back if you have any questions!

  Captain_WD.

• What is a "device i/o error. (0x8007045D) concerning the transfer to an external hard drive to my new computer?

  I backed up the files from my old computer Visa on a 1 TB hard drive.  I now need these files on my new computer.  I have a Mac with Parallels (virtual Windows 7) running on it.  I get the above error when you try to copy the files on the Mac or the side of Windows, Mac.  What is the solution to do this, to be able to copy the files?  Thank you!

  Hello

  Try running chkdsk on the external hard drive to check if there are errors.

  1. Click Start, type cmd in the start search box, right-click cmd.exe in the list programs and then click Run as administrator.

  2. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click on continue.

  3. at a command prompt, type the following command and press ENTER:

  CHKDSK X: /R

  Note in this command, x is a placeholder that represents the drive letter of the volume you want to check.

  4. press y when you are prompted to check the drive the next time the system restarts.

  5. close all applications and restart the computer. Note When you restart, Windows checks the drive for errors, and then Windows starts.

  6. after that restart the computer check if you are able to move files on your hard drive.

  Reference:

  Check a drive for errors

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors

  Important: when running chkdsk on the drive hard if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data may be lost

• Old hard drive in a new shell, now I can not turn on...

  My laptop has had a bit of an accident and could not be saved. The hard drive, however, was recoverable and has been installed in another computer of the same brand and model. I need to reactivate Windows, but it does not accept my key because it is technically registered on another computer. What should I do?

  If you bought a full commercial license then:

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  1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4

  (2) press the ENTER"" key.

  (3) select your "country" in the list.

  (4) choose the option "activate phone".

  5) stay on the phone (do not meet all the automatic guests) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.

  (6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.