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'external' drive.... we talking desktop or laptop here?
if it's a desktop then just as above, as phoenixc says - get hold of another drive, swap them totally, install Windows on your new drive and then whap the old one back in, alongside it (removing it totally for the first stage prevents any 'installing windows on wrong drive' nightmares) having set the jumper on the back to 'slave'. should then get a D drive in Windows with all your stuff on.
if it's a laptop then still need a new drive to install windows on, but your old one should be put into an external case, see the links on the previous page. this then plugs into the usb port when you're up and running with windows, and again all your stuff should be on the D drive.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,858
Club RR Member Number: 71
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Oct 16, 2006 11:39:47 GMT
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Main things I am bothered about are my photos, and my music. I last backed my photos up a year ago. So I have lost a lot of pics, including CARS, my monza rebuild and loads of holiday and family pics Have to get some pics back off photobucket (lower quality though) I can help you with the CARS Pics - I have a copy of them
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OK, here's another good one for you.... Following on from the death of my old PC........... I have an iPod. It has 9gb of tunage on it. On my new poota I have 5gb of music that I want to add to my old iPod. But the st00pid thing tells me that if I add the new music it will have to erase all the old stuff as my iPod is 'synched' with the old, dead computer. . Is there a way I can prevent this from happening? Otherwise I have to re-load all the 9gb's of stuff from CD etc. And that will take A VERY VERY LONG TIME. I am a techno idiot. Please feel free to take the pi$$. But I thought I'd ask here as if I go on a proper 'technology' forum (if such a thing exists) I will get either ripped up or hideously confused by jargon from people who live in internetland. HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,858
Club RR Member Number: 71
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OK, here's another good one for you.... Following on from the death of my old PC........... I have an iPod. It has 9gb of tunage on it. On my new poota I have 5gb of music that I want to add to my old iPod. But the st00pid thing tells me that if I add the new music it will have to erase all the old stuff as my iPod is 'synched' with the old, dead computer. . Is there a way I can prevent this from happening? Otherwise I have to re-load all the 9gb's of stuff from CD etc. And that will take A VERY VERY LONG TIME. I am a techno idiot. Please feel free to take the pi$$. But I thought I'd ask here as if I go on a proper 'technology' forum (if such a thing exists) I will get either ripped up or hideously confused by jargon from people who live in internetland. HEEEEEEEEEEEELP! I'm not sure as I don't own an pod but surely you can set up as a new user and transfer all the files from pod thingy to PC and then go from there?
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Probably. But they get 'hidden away' and I don't really know what's what!
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