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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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