data migration

I have XP Pro installed on my primary IDE drive (C:) I installed a SATA drive and installed 7 Ultimate to it as a dual boot system. XP sees the drive as E:. When booted in 7 it sees the drive as C: and the XP drive as D: I have downloaded, installed and configured the XP VM plus the patches. The...

Its a bit complicated to state my situation, anyways, I have 2 HDD, and the PC won't boot if I removed the old HDD even though I've formatted the old HDD and win7 is on the new HDD. I have 2 physical HDD in PC (1) 80GB old hdd and noisy. (not SATA) (2) 500GB SATA hdd and sexy. My...

I have a new Dell Inspirion 540 computer (running Windows 7) that is now infected with Adware-Isearch. When I transferred the files from my old computer which runs Windows XP using a Belkins Easy Transfer cable, the adware was transferred over. When I run McAffee antivirus, the Adware-Isearch...

My Windows is on SSD, and I've heard it's better if you put the regularly changing folders to a HDD, cause SSD cells can only be rewritten 10000 times. How can I move Users and Temp folders to D: while they remain usable?

I have Windows 7 Pro on a pc and use ShadowProtect Desktop for imaging and backup. My original image of the OS will fit on a USB Flash Drive/Thumb Drive. For some reason I'm unable to transfer, send or copy and past the image to the Flash Drive or a blank CD. I haven't tried a blank hard drive...

My old computer is about to die, so I decided to get a new laptop that came installed with Windows 7. When I installed Office 2007 everything went fine & I went to transfer over my Outlook.pst file from the old computer to the new one & I can not find a .pst file anywhere on Windows 7. Is...

Would it be at all possible for me to transfer files from a Windows 7 computer to a Windows XP computer with the XP Computer being the destination? If it is possible can I do it with a Cat5 Cable or does it have to be done in a different way? How do you do it?

I am having a problem accessing files. I was running vista til my had to do a fresh install of windows 7. I had been backing up with nt backup and still have those files. They were under an administrator account. When I attempt to restore them I see the files transfered but am unable to see them...

Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 - Help & How-to - Microsoft Windows Please note that it is highly recommended to do a clean installation, not an upgrade ! Introduction To upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows 7, you'll need to select the Custom option...

hey guys, i installed a valid copy of windows 7 on my PC.. but in a different partition. before i isntalled, i shrunk the volume of Vista C:\ and it only allowed me to have 54 GB unallocated space- there was at least 190GB of space that was unused in the hard drive, buit when i pressed hrink, it...

I am trying to transfer files etc from my W7 64bit computer to my W7 32bit laptop using the Belken Easy transfer cable for W7. And Windows Easy Transfer. I get the message W7 64 bit can't be transfered to W7 32 bit. Any help would be apreciated. :(

I've got Vista 64bit Ultimate currently installed on EIDE 400 gb HDD. I bought the W7 Professional edition, because I won't use the features of W7 Ultimate. Therefore a custom install is indicated by MSFT. Bought a 1TB WD SATA drive I disconnected the EIDE drive from computer and did a clean...

I exported the data to .pst file on the windows XP and tried to read the file on the same outlook version on the windows 7 it behave as if it reads but nothing is imported into the new outlook.

I had installed windows 7 on a partitioned drive as windows xp. Now I'm liking 7 but the problem I'm facing is that I want to transfer some files from XP to 7. Now I figured how to gain access to the files/folders on xp but i can't copy them over to 7. Every time I try I get a message that I...

Hi all, I hope some clever bod out there can help - I don't know what I'm doing so consequently am not getting too far. I have a PC with a hard disk that has 3 partitions - Windows 7, WinXP and documents. Each partition was getting a little full so I want to upgrade it. I bought a 1Tb...

I've tried about five times to install 7, and it resets in the final step every time around 62/63% and then reverts back to vista. I've looked into the 62% bug, but I dont see anything in the log to indicate this. I have deleted all the programs it recommends, minus symantec endpoint protection...

Overview Agood solution for XP users. This software installs Windows Easy Transfer on a computer running the 32-bit version of Windows XP so you can copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more to a computer running Windows 7. If your computer is running another version of...

Hello all, I am new to the forum and searched for an answer to this question but couldn't find a definitive answer so here it is: I have Vista32 on my C: drive and Win764 on my K: drive which was partitioned for Win7. When booted to Win7, I believe Win7 is on C: and Vista is on D...

OK, I now have a new laptop running Vista Ultimate 32, and an extra (as per tblount) HDD. My W7 Upgrade is "In The Mail". I want to end up with W7 Ultimate 64 with 2 partitions. Hardware specs are 3.06GHz Duo 2 T9900 processor, 8GB memory & 320GB HDD. There are no apps on the Vista system except...

I know Windows Mail will not be available in Win 7 and Win Live is there for me to use, however, I'm planning on doing a clean install anyway, and probably moving to OpenOffice mail, if not that, I'll use Win Live. Can anyone tell me what I need to backup or export so I can successfully...