Solve : old HDD, new computer?

1.	Solve : old HDD, new computer?
Answer» I am trying to move all my old files with an external usb drive CASE and my old HDD which RAN xp. when it is plugged into my gateway (new) it never will load all of the way up when i am in my computer. I installed usb drivers in an old comp running windows NT and the same external drive is accesable on the NT machine but I can't find a way to get the files over to the new. I have a 20 gb drive that I can format in either computer and use but if it is formatted on the nt system and then used on the vista system no matter how many file are on it it wont load up. Thanks for listening!You can't move a HDD with XP installed from one machine to another and expect it to boot up properly...this is by design. You're best bet to retrieve that data would be to HOOK up the drive as an internal drive jumpered as slave and copy/move the info you need...Maybe I'm not reading your post right but I think some clarification is needed. Are you trying to boot your new Gateway computer, running Vista, from the external USB drive? If so, why? Quote I have a 20 gb drive that I can format in either computer and use but if it is formatted on the nt system and then used on the vista system no matter how many file are on it it wont load up. "... wont load up." Exactly what do you mean? Again, are you trying to boot from the external drive, or just use it to transfer files from the old computer to the new one? thanks for replying! my new computer runs vista. I only want to get my files back. I only mentioned xp just in case it was a relevent part of the problem. Along with putting the old HD in an external case and trying to find my old files on it I tried putting the old hard drive on the same cable 40 pin cable that the dvd drive was on and jumpering it on slave but the screen just stays blank. (tried it at the end of the chain and in the middle, with the dvd at the end) I checked bios before I did this also to make sure that ther wasn't any issues, although there maybe something I am overlooking.Have you used any other USB devices on that new computer? When you connected the USB external drive to the Gateway computer, did you get any RESPONSE at all?Is the drive showing up in the BIOS on startup ? ?Im confused. You removed your old harddrive wiht OS and everything from your old computer. You have a new harddrive in the new computer with Vista. You are booting up the computer from the harddrive with Vista. You cannot READ form the old hardrive that you connected to the new computer. Is all of that correct?Wasn't it clarified in replies #2 and #3?

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I am trying to move all my old files with an external usb drive CASE and my old HDD which RAN xp. when it is plugged into my gateway (new) it never will load all of the way up when i am in my computer. I installed usb drivers in an old comp running windows NT and the same external drive is accesable on the NT machine but I can't find a way to get the files over to the new. I have a 20 gb drive that I can format in either computer and use but if it is formatted on the nt system and then used on the vista system no matter how many file are on it it wont load up.
Thanks for listening!You can't move a HDD with XP installed from one machine to another and expect it to boot up properly...this is by design.
You're best bet to retrieve that data would be to HOOK up the drive as an internal drive jumpered as slave and copy/move the info you need...Maybe I'm not reading your post right but I think some clarification is needed. Are you trying to boot your new Gateway computer, running Vista, from the external USB drive? If so, why?

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I have a 20 gb drive that I can format in either computer and use but if it is formatted on the nt system and then used on the vista system no matter how many file are on it it wont load up.

"... wont load up." Exactly what do you mean? Again, are you trying to boot from the external drive, or just use it to transfer files from the old computer to the new one?
thanks for replying!
my new computer runs vista. I only want to get my files back. I only mentioned xp just in case it was a relevent part of the problem. Along with putting the old HD in an external case and trying to find my old files on it I tried putting the old hard drive on the same cable 40 pin cable that the dvd drive was on and jumpering it on slave but the screen just stays blank. (tried it at the end of the chain and in the middle, with the dvd at the end) I checked bios before I did this also to make sure that ther wasn't any issues, although there maybe something I am overlooking.Have you used any other USB devices on that new computer? When you connected the USB external drive to the Gateway computer, did you get any RESPONSE at all?Is the drive showing up in the BIOS on startup ? ?Im confused.

You removed your old harddrive wiht OS and everything from your old computer.
You have a new harddrive in the new computer with Vista.
You are booting up the computer from the harddrive with Vista.
You cannot READ form the old hardrive that you connected to the new computer.

Is all of that correct?Wasn't it clarified in replies #2 and #3?

Solve : old HDD, new computer?

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