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mackyman

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HI Everyone..
I got a new windows 10 computer and for some reason it won't read all of the data on
my 4 year old Western Digital External Hard Drive.

My new computer found the external hard drive right away, it just has trouble reading the files on the external drive.

So I went on NCH website and purchased Doxillion document converter and Prism video file converter. I thought I could change the files to something my new computer could read.

I have to admit I've always been confused with all the many different files! I tried to right click and go to "change to" but that don't work.

Am I missing something?? I thought I could just plug my old external hard drive in to my new computer and it would be the same as my old widows 7 computer, just click on any file and it opens up. Now all it says is not recognized."

It wont open any WPS FILES OR JPEG files or Real files and many more. I hope I don't have to wipe clean the external HD.
Please, any advice would be very much appreciated.
 
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JackNaylorPE
It will not recognize the files until the program associated with them is installed.

Also, "external drives" are designed to encrypt / compress files and if you don't have the associated utility installed, it won't communicate properly.
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mackyman

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Are you trying to say all the audio files I kept safe on my external hard drive won't open because I didn't save the program "Wavepad Sound Editor" on the same external drive.

When I used Wavepad it asked me where to save my finish files and I put them in my external HD. The same with all my pictures and videos and documents
and the snipping tool files.
 
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Not at all.

1. I am saying that you can't open say for example a PDF file if you don't have Adobe Acrobat (or a program that emulates it) installed. If you want to open and play an audio file, then you need to have a program that can open those files installed on your computer.

When you install a program, it sets up what is called a file association in Windows. If you install MS Excel for example, it will tell windows "Hey, anytime this dude clicks on a file with the XLS file extension, I want you to open the file in Excel."

Now if you uninstall Excel, that file association usually stays. Similarly, if you move that external drive witnXLS files on it from a PC that has Excel installed to one which does not, Windows will do a WTH ? and have no idea what program to call on to open the file.

2. I am saying that if your external drive used any compression of encryption software to save space, then you need to uncompress or decrypt those files to read them.

 
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