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My mom just bought a new pc with Win XP Home, and we're trying to move her
files over from an old Win95 system. It doesn't have a floppy, and the old
system doesn't have a burner, and the old system doesn't have an eithernet
port. Direct connection through a parrallel cable fails.
We purchased PC-Relocator, but the parrallel connection doesn't work.
Neither machine sees the other.
I've taken the hard disks out, and installed them in the new system, which
after booting shows a recover partition. The old system no longer boots. Is
it possible to make XP see an old hard drive?
(I did back up the files she was most interested in to floppy, but it would
be nice if we could just install the old drives into the new PC, as she may
find other files that she wants. The salesmen for the PC suggested hooking
the drives up and copying the files when we purchased Intellimover, which we
took back when we found PC-Relocator.)
In any case, I'ld like to know if XP has destroyed the data on the drives,
so that others don't do the same stupid thing. Is there a way to get XP to
recognize the win95 hard drives with the data intact?
My mom just bought a new pc with Win XP Home, and we're trying to move her
files over from an old Win95 system. It doesn't have a floppy, and the old
system doesn't have a burner, and the old system doesn't have an eithernet
port. Direct connection through a parrallel cable fails.
We purchased PC-Relocator, but the parrallel connection doesn't work.
Neither machine sees the other.
I've taken the hard disks out, and installed them in the new system, which
after booting shows a recover partition. The old system no longer boots. Is
it possible to make XP see an old hard drive?
(I did back up the files she was most interested in to floppy, but it would
be nice if we could just install the old drives into the new PC, as she may
find other files that she wants. The salesmen for the PC suggested hooking
the drives up and copying the files when we purchased Intellimover, which we
took back when we found PC-Relocator.)
In any case, I'ld like to know if XP has destroyed the data on the drives,
so that others don't do the same stupid thing. Is there a way to get XP to
recognize the win95 hard drives with the data intact?