Swapping or adding hard drive from one XP PC to another-possible?

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Dennman6

Greetings-

I have two eMachines computers both running XP, first machine from
2002 & the second from 2004. The newer machine shut down after being
in use less than an hour, & went totally dead. Doing a bit of research
led me to replacing the original 250w power supply with a new Antec
500w, but the unit remains dead. No power up, nothing. My surmise is
that there was a 50/50 chance that when the power supply quit it may
have taken out the motherboard & processor as well.

That being the case, can I remove the hard drive from the stricken PC
& swap it into the older functioning PC in order to retrieve the
files on it-OR-can I add the hard drive to the older PC as a secondary
drive or slave & then get the files? The first eMachines has a 40GB
hard drive & the stricken one has a 60GB hard drive(not filled). I
have a Maxtor One Touch external drive also, & was thinking that if
the files could be saved from the dead PC I could add them to the
first, working PC & then copy them also to the external drive for back-
up(yeah, I know- I should've done that before!). I have the restore
discs for both eMachines PCs.

The stricken computer was used for scanning of family negatives,
slides, photos, record album covers, digital picture folders. I of
course still have all those negatives, etc., but there have been many,
MANY hours spent in the scanning & capturing process-hours I should
not like to repeat. In point of fact, I DID save many of these scans &
digital pic files to CD-Rs, but not ALL of them. And so if there was a
practical way to salvage the files off the hard drive it would save a
great deal of time, not having to laboriously engage in this work all
over again. Any tips & advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

Dennis Forkel
 
Move the 60GB hard drive to the older but working PC,
Make certain the 60GB drive has the "Jumper"
changed "Master" to "Slave" before you connect it.

Note: If the drive are from different manufactures you
may need to try several Jumper combinations including
"Cable Select" in order for the PC to see both drives.

You may what to consider copying your photo files directly to
the external drive first. Then reformat the drive you removed
from the dead PC to get rid of the Windows OS which you
can not longer use.

If your 60GB drive is formatted as NTFS and you get a
"Access Denied" on any of the files you are trying to copy
then see the information below:

Access is Denied Error Message - Windows XP Pro:
(should work with Media Center)
(Note: Simple File Sharing is always on for XP Home)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881

Also read these articles about how to take ownership of files.
http://www.winxptutor.com/ownership.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

XP Pro Security Settings For XP Home
http://tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm1.htm

Understanding and Applying NTFS Permission in Windows XP Professional
http://www.winxpsolution.com/ApplyingNTFSXPPro.aspx

There is also a utility named: Unlocker
I have not used it but it has been mentioned a number of times.
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
 
Move the 60GB hard drive to the older but working PC,
Make certain the 60GB drive has the "Jumper"
changed "Master" to "Slave" before you connect it.

Note: If the drive are from different manufactures you
may need to try several Jumper combinations including
"Cable Select" in order for the PC to see both drives.

You may what to consider copying your photo files directly to
the external drive first. Then reformat the drive you removed
from the dead PC to get rid of the Windows OS which you
can not longer use.

If your 60GB drive is formatted as NTFS and you get a
"Access Denied" on any of the files you are trying to copy
then see the information below:

Access is Denied Error Message - Windows XP Pro:
(should work with Media Center)
(Note: Simple File Sharing is always on for XP Home)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881

Also read these articles about how to take ownership of files.http://www.winxptutor.com/ownership.htmhttp://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

XP Pro Security Settings For XP Homehttp://tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm1.htm

Understanding and Applying NTFS Permission in Windows XP Professionalhttp://www.winxpsolution.com/ApplyingNTFSXPPro.aspx

There is also a utility named: Unlocker
I have not used it but it has been mentioned a number of times.http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Click to expand...

Thank you for this. I appreciate the response, & it seems that perhaps
I'll get through what I thought could've been a catastrophic loss
situation.

Dennis Forkel
 
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And what does this have to do with swapping Hard Drives in XP???????

DON'T hijack other people's threads!
 
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