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| SithMaster:
I have a hd that has a copy of windows xp that came with the computer i bought and now that it doesnt work i was wondering if i would be able to get my info off of it. i was going to use another hd as a dummy hard drive-install a retail windows xp and use it to copy my old data off my original hard drive. would this work? |
| ChadTower:
If you did it right it would work just fine. Put the original drive in as a slave in any XP box and it will be assigned a drive letter so you can access it. Of course, you say it doesn't work, which could mean any number of things, many of them leading to the drive being unrecoverable. |
| SithMaster:
i havent tried this yet so i was only speculating. the mobo in the original pc died and im going to buy a copy winxp today and take a shot at it. but you say it is just copying (copy and paste maybe) so it should work. but i meant that the hard drive works but the computer doesnt. i was worried that since it was a bundled windows xp it wouldnt let me copy the files. curious whats the minimum hd size for winxp? i have only 2 spare hds a 1 gb and a 2gb otherwise ill have to use the hd from my arcade cab and well i dont want to do that. |
| USSEnterprise:
I think XP takea about 1.5GB, but not sure. If the hard drive you were trying to recover files from is password protected under windows by any chance, you may have a hard time accessing files in the documents and settings directory. I have run into this problem in the past. |
| ChadTower:
The drive to which you want to copy the content needs to be at least as big as a new XP install + the size of the stuff you want to copy + about 10% extra for scratch space. So mostly it depends on how much stuff you want to pull off of that old drive. |
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