I upgraded my hard drive to a 160GB...from a 30..
how do i get the old information (outlook express address book/Media player
music/and Word perfect files) from the old drive..now that it is OUT of the
machine.
thanks

"Gail" <Gail@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D654395-2890-413B-88FE-A76AB75559C6@microsoft.com...
> I upgraded my hard drive to a 160GB...from a 30..
> how do i get the old information (outlook express address book/Media
player
> music/and Word perfect files) from the old drive..now that it is OUT of
the
> machine.
> thanks

Put it back in again, and connect it as the primary slave drive.

Alternatively, restore the data from your backup medium.
If you haven't got one, do yourself a favour and read some
of the backup-related sob stories in this newsgroup, e.g.
this one: "Repair turned into reinstallment...all my files gone!!".
You could be next in line.

Hi Gail

You need to slave the old hard drive. Put it back into the machine attached
to the same cable as the old one. On the back of the drive are the jumpers.
These will be labeled as such. Set the jumpers to cable select or slave
(follow the little diagram or google it)

When you boot the old hard drive should be detected as a Primary slave drive
and should appear in my computer with a drive letter of D(or similar).

If it doesn't appear right click my computer and choose manage. Select
storage and disk management(local). look for any new drive will probably be
(D:) if your windows drive is (C:) and your CD/DVD Drive is (E:). Right click
and choose import and the drive should become available. Any problems post a
reply back on here and we will try something else

Until you connect it to the computer in some way, the information will
remain inaccessible. You may install the old drive as slave and
recover/transfer the data that way.

Gail wrote:

> I upgraded my hard drive to a 160GB...from a 30..
> how do i get the old information (outlook express address book/Media player
> music/and Word perfect files) from the old drive..now that it is OUT of the
> machine.
> thanks

"Gail" wrote

>I upgraded my hard drive to a 160GB...from a 30..
> how do i get the old information (outlook express address book/Media
> player
> music/and Word perfect files) from the old drive..now that it is OUT of
> the
> machine.

Osmosis? Re-typing? Did you copy the data to CD? Or, in addition to your
other posts, ff this is a laptop, get an USB enclosure, put the old drive in
that, connect it to the laptop through a USB port and copy your data. Then
you can clear off files from this old drive and use it as data backup.