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Vista backup and Restore
COM wrote: I have a brand new dell laptop. It has vista. My old computer was XP and I am trying to move over some certain files, (music and pictures) from the external hard drive to the vista system. I plugged in the EXT HD and vista accepted it without any problems. It shows up with the correct name in the USB

Can't see folders on Vista Computer from XP Laptop
Saucy Lemon The problem is I don't have the same BIOS, besides my Boot drive where Vista is on is on a IDE drive, so it needs to boot first. Turn off your external drive (assuming it has an exteranl power source). Now leave it off. Reboot your laptop. Wait till Windows comes up and it settles down.

Computer Tips [ Alert! New Security Threat + Laptop Protection ...
I already have the laptop operational, having installed programs (using the trial method) that seem to work well in Vista. I don't think I should chance screwing up Vista, at least not until In time of need, when the computer crashes and won't boot beyond Safe Mode, CMS doesn't work too well with an external drive.

Accessing Laptop Hidden Partition
help with vista and old drive help_with_vista_and_old_dr...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices My old laptop got trashed so i got a new one. I then went out and got a new one yesterday, toshiba p200-17c, running centino duo with 2048 ram. The old laptop would not boot up,

UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME BLUE SCREEN <<PLEASE HELP>>
Jan Il ab...@localhost.invalid microsoft public internetexplorer general Brian....is this a desktop or laptop? If a desktop, do you have another hard drive I do need to find a way to back up files stuck on my hard drive. I can only get into Recovery Mode where I tried to copy files to an external drive before

assigning free hard drive space
My data is backed up on One Care on an external Hard Drive, I have had some difficulties with that too, but I can replace anything missing in time. Was Vista pre-installed on it? Which version of Vista? HOW did you reinstall Vista? Step by step? Did you boot from the Vista DVD-ROM and run Setup from there?

How to make a hard disk bootable?
Is it possible to restore a disk image to a virtual drive? What I'd like to do is create a virtual XP Pro machine on my new Vista laptop and have the image of my old it has no problem seeing either the secondary virutal drive or the external USB drive. It just can't see them when I boot up off the Acronis CD.

Allan
Here are suggestions for retrieving your data: 1. Pull the drive and slave it in a computer running a working install of XP/Vista. Depending on the target drive's characteristics, you may need a drive adapter; ie, laptop-to-IDE or a SATA controller card, etc. A usb/firewire external drive enclosure works very well,

Upgrading laptop Hard Disk - best way?
I have installed linux many many times, and am fluent at partioning and using GParted which I plan to use if needed to resize his laptop drive. to accomplish the dual boot, so it would not be a bad idea to boot a Live CD and use dd to save a copy of the MBR - possibly to an external drive and then later save it

External drive boot for xp
I want to put a 200Gb drive in to replace my 120Gb, but I don't want to have to reinstall vista and all my apps. I have a USB external drive that I could place an image on. Question: What's the best way to image my drive so that I can just pop in a new drive and copy over the image? I then want to boot my laptop so

External USB Hard Drive not working, Vista asking for drivers
spammotel.com wrote: I would welcome advice on getting my Vista Home Premium PC to talk to my Ximeta NDAS external drive via Ethernet. I have come to a dead end with Ximeta support. Both my Win2K PC and WinXP laptop can access the drive via Ethernet and USB, but the Vista PC can access it only via USB.

Can I install SBS on an external drive for testing?
Panos Pa...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general I do not want to do this to install Vista on the external drive,but because i have a laptop with no floppy or cdrom and the only way to install windows would be booting from the hard drive and accessing the Windows install i have copied

Password lost
Alun Harford devn...@alunharford.co.uk microsoft public windows vista general Panos wrote: I do not want to do this to install Vista on the external drive,but because i have a laptop with no floppy or cdrom and the only way to install windows would be booting from the hard drive and accessing the Windows install i

Moving "Documents" to encrypted drive (worked in XP)
I was running Vista 64-bit home premimum and needed to create a dual boot vista ultimate 64 /32 machine on my laptop. So, while running vista home premium 64 on my laptop, I opened the Easy Transfer program and followed the instructions verbatim. All of my data (about 14GB) was saved to a USB External Hard drive.

Allan
... windows vista general Thanks for the replies, but I know how to use it, as a recovery/reinstall, I want to be able to remove the files to disk/or external drive "koze" <k...@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:%23ihkdLpjHHA.392@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... Or press F11 at boot to get the recovery options! Ko.

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Henry Hsu Henry_...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I just bought a new HP Vista OS laptop. Butt after try to boot from XP install CD, the internal drive is not showing, and I install to one of my USB external drive with no problem during the installation.

in lieu of swapping out hard drives
You can get an EIDE WD Caviar 7200 rpm 320 GB hard drive (white box ) for less than $90. Stick that in an external drive enclosure (on the order of $20) and This will over write the Vista boot files so they will need to be restored. VistaBootPro works for this. Here are some links for your consideration.

How do i keep my files from windows XP?
There are adapters that will allow you to attach your laptop's drive to a standard IDE controller. I have used these in the past, and they are a real lifesaver. So I would not be able to use the hidden partition as the boot disk for vista to repair any damaged files? It's just that I would obviously want to try

Maxtor External drive and vista... Maxtor won't help me!
SUSE has pretty good support for WiFi, but for laptop scenarios where you need to access WiFi via subscription services, may need to power-up and power-down Do they have an external drive in the bag? (much easier to create smaller Windows and Linux partitions on the main drive, then put additional storage space

Accessing Laptop Hidden Partition
"Henry Hsu" wrote: I just bought a new HP Vista OS laptop. I found out most of my application would not work on this new laptop. Butt after try to boot from XP install CD, the internal drive is not showing, and I install to one of my USB external drive with no problem during the installation.