I am a novice computer user and I would like to transfer the picture files
that are on a hard drive from my broken (motherboard out of commission)
computer's hard drive to my new pc. I have removed the hard drive from the
old pc and now I need to figure out how to do the rest. The old drive is a
barracuda ATA V 120 gig. The computer I am trying to transfer the files to
has a 300 gig Maxtor 6B300S0 hard drive. The old and new computers both
use/used windows XP as the OS if there is any other syst info needed let me
know.
Thank You for all responses

harpo wrote:

> I am a novice computer user and I would like to transfer the picture
> files that are on a hard drive from my broken (motherboard out of
> commission) computer's hard drive to my new pc. I have removed the
> hard drive from the old pc and now I need to figure out how to do the
> rest. The old drive is a barracuda ATA V 120 gig. The computer I am
> trying to transfer the files to has a 300 gig Maxtor 6B300S0 hard
> drive. The old and new computers both use/used windows XP as the OS if
> there is any other syst info needed let me know.
> Thank You for all responses

This is very easy. Here is how to slave a hard drive in another machine
in order to copy over its data. We'll call this drive "drive.old" and
the target drive "target.drive". Turn off both computers, and then take
drive.old out of its computer, gently removing the ribbon cable and
power connector. Handle hard drives carefully, and try not to touch any
exposed circuit boards.

Look at drive.old - between the connectors for the ribbon cable and
power is a small section with little pins. There will be a tiny plastic
rectangle covering some of the pins. This is called a "jumper" and is
used to set the drive's status to master, slave, or cable select. The
easiest thing to do is to remove the ribbon cable from the cd drives in
the new computer and connect drive.old to one of the connectors on that
cable. If you do this, you won't need to change the jumpers on
drive.old. Be sure to plug in a power connector to drive.old.

Turn on target.drive's computer. If you've done everything right, then
drive.old will show up in the BIOS and then in Windows. You can then
drag and drop your data from drive.old to the place of your choice on
target.drive. When you are finished, shut down the computer and reverse
your steps. This procedure is actually very easy and doesn't take long
to do.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

the old computer is not able to boot up/be used, the motherbord is
dead.Anything else?

"Malke" wrote:

> harpo wrote:
>
> > I am a novice computer user and I would like to transfer the picture
> > files that are on a hard drive from my broken (motherboard out of
> > commission) computer's hard drive to my new pc. I have removed the
> > hard drive from the old pc and now I need to figure out how to do the
> > rest. The old drive is a barracuda ATA V 120 gig. The computer I am
> > trying to transfer the files to has a 300 gig Maxtor 6B300S0 hard
> > drive. The old and new computers both use/used windows XP as the OS if
> > there is any other syst info needed let me know.
> > Thank You for all responses
>
> This is very easy. Here is how to slave a hard drive in another machine
> in order to copy over its data. We'll call this drive "drive.old" and
> the target drive "target.drive". Turn off both computers, and then take
> drive.old out of its computer, gently removing the ribbon cable and
> power connector. Handle hard drives carefully, and try not to touch any
> exposed circuit boards.
>
> Look at drive.old - between the connectors for the ribbon cable and
> power is a small section with little pins. There will be a tiny plastic
> rectangle covering some of the pins. This is called a "jumper" and is
> used to set the drive's status to master, slave, or cable select. The
> easiest thing to do is to remove the ribbon cable from the cd drives in
> the new computer and connect drive.old to one of the connectors on that
> cable. If you do this, you won't need to change the jumpers on
> drive.old. Be sure to plug in a power connector to drive.old.
>
> Turn on target.drive's computer. If you've done everything right, then
> drive.old will show up in the BIOS and then in Windows. You can then
> drag and drop your data from drive.old to the place of your choice on
> target.drive. When you are finished, shut down the computer and reverse
> your steps. This procedure is actually very easy and doesn't take long
> to do.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Sorry I did not read the whole reply, pay no attention to the last
question,and thanks again.
"harpo" wrote:

> the old computer is not able to boot up/be used, the motherbord is
> dead.Anything else?
>
> "Malke" wrote:
>
> > harpo wrote:
> >
> > > I am a novice computer user and I would like to transfer the picture
> > > files that are on a hard drive from my broken (motherboard out of
> > > commission) computer's hard drive to my new pc. I have removed the
> > > hard drive from the old pc and now I need to figure out how to do the
> > > rest. The old drive is a barracuda ATA V 120 gig. The computer I am
> > > trying to transfer the files to has a 300 gig Maxtor 6B300S0 hard
> > > drive. The old and new computers both use/used windows XP as the OS if
> > > there is any other syst info needed let me know.
> > > Thank You for all responses
> >
> > This is very easy. Here is how to slave a hard drive in another machine
> > in order to copy over its data. We'll call this drive "drive.old" and
> > the target drive "target.drive". Turn off both computers, and then take
> > drive.old out of its computer, gently removing the ribbon cable and
> > power connector. Handle hard drives carefully, and try not to touch any
> > exposed circuit boards.
> >
> > Look at drive.old - between the connectors for the ribbon cable and
> > power is a small section with little pins. There will be a tiny plastic
> > rectangle covering some of the pins. This is called a "jumper" and is
> > used to set the drive's status to master, slave, or cable select. The
> > easiest thing to do is to remove the ribbon cable from the cd drives in
> > the new computer and connect drive.old to one of the connectors on that
> > cable. If you do this, you won't need to change the jumpers on
> > drive.old. Be sure to plug in a power connector to drive.old.
> >
> > Turn on target.drive's computer. If you've done everything right, then
> > drive.old will show up in the BIOS and then in Windows. You can then
> > drag and drop your data from drive.old to the place of your choice on
> > target.drive. When you are finished, shut down the computer and reverse
> > your steps. This procedure is actually very easy and doesn't take long
> > to do.
> >
> > Malke
> > --
> > Elephant Boy Computers
> > www.elephantboycomputers.com
> > "Don't Panic!"
> > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> >