Hard drive transfer (corrected)

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I have a new, Athlon 64 based computer with fresh installation of windows
XP. Old computer also runs XP. I'm trying to transfer required data: I
though I should be able to simply unhook the D: drive off the old computer,
hook it up to the new one which will recognise it as a D: drive and I can
copy *.* onto the new C: drive.

Sadly, I've tried all sorts of things and though in some configurations the
BIOS sees the drive, XP never does.

How can I copy the files? Any viable solution is OK so long as it's not too
expensive.

NB the old computer has problems networking, I can't seem to be able to get
it to transfer large files, so that would appear to be out.

 

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XP will need to have had the drive assigned a letter. Have you tried with
Disk Management to see if the hard drive is listed?


"Fronkensteen" <aozv11@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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>I have a new, Athlon 64 based computer with fresh installation of windows
> XP. Old computer also runs XP. I'm trying to transfer required data: I
> though I should be able to simply unhook the D: drive off the old
> computer,
> hook it up to the new one which will recognise it as a D: drive and I can
> copy *.* onto the new C: drive.
>
> Sadly, I've tried all sorts of things and though in some configurations
> the
> BIOS sees the drive, XP never does.
>
> How can I copy the files? Any viable solution is OK so long as it's not
> too expensive.
>
> NB the old computer has problems networking, I can't seem to be able to
> get it to transfer large files, so that would appear to be out.
>

 

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What about the Files And Settings Transfer Wizard?

"Fronkensteen" <aozv11@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:41b5fe5a$0$4826$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
> I have a new, Athlon 64 based computer with fresh installation of windows
> XP. Old computer also runs XP. I'm trying to transfer required data: I
> though I should be able to simply unhook the D: drive off the old
computer,
> hook it up to the new one which will recognise it as a D: drive and I can
> copy *.* onto the new C: drive.
>
> Sadly, I've tried all sorts of things and though in some configurations
the
> BIOS sees the drive, XP never does.
>
> How can I copy the files? Any viable solution is OK so long as it's not
too
> expensive.
>
> NB the old computer has problems networking, I can't seem to be able to
get
> it to transfer large files, so that would appear to be out.
>
>