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Transfering data between different windows os's
USSEnterprise:
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--- Quote from: SithMaster on November 09, 2006, 03:24:17 pm ---my account had a password but is it only documents and settings?
how did you get around the password issue?
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A drive password issue is different than an OS login. So you're probably good.
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The problem I've had has been with the OS login. I have a password to login to Windows. If I try to access my files running the drive as a slave on another computer, I run into a wall.
Jess--:
I have never run into any problems jumping between OS's I have windows XP installed on a sata drive and windows 2000 server installed on an ide drive, the two installations are unaware of each other (I pulled the 2000 drive when I installed xp)
XP has full access to the 2000 drive (including docs and settings) the same also works in reverse.
both systems are set up with passwords.
The only thing I can think that could cause a problem accessing what the computer thinks is another users files would be if you do not have admin rights (if it still objects with admin rights then take ownership of the offending files..... not sure if you can do this under xp)
NightGod:
Since the drive works and you have a functioning computer, you migth as well try dropping in the hard drive into the working PC and firing it up-if the only problem with the old machine was other hardware failures, it just might work. Worst case it would fail and then you could try booting off the XP install disk and running a Repair and, if that failed, you could just install XP fresh on the drive in a new directory.
Or just drop the old drive into the machine you planning to use the 60GB worth of data on and copy it directly...why all this effort of pulling it to an external USB hard drive so you can transfer it to another machine?