Can't access old hard drive in new computer?

Question

My old computer's power supply died. I bought another e-machines, took my old hard drive, and attached it to the slave terminals of the new machine. It is now drive "F", with "C" being the new internal drive. I can see files in "F", and I want to take my old MS works Calendar data file (wherever that is located - let me know) and import it to the calendar on the "C" drive, but I can't open the files on "F" - I get a message "not accessible, access is denied." I right-clicked in the files' Properties, tried to allow sharing, but get "The shared resource was not created at this time." How can I get my old calendar files (and other personal data) from my old drive into the new one?

Answer 1

ok first of all sharing is not a way to transfer files to another drive ,now to open up the other drive go to properties and find the letter f and change it to whatever letter u want and then u can open up your files bcuse letter f is not a drive is for examples but anyways just change the drive letter

Answer 2

Based on the limited info you supplied, I would suspect that you do not have the "master" and "slave" setting correct on the second drive. If you have the drive and another device (hard drive, CD, etc) on the same ribbon cable, then they are probably both set to master or to slave.

Begin by making sure that the main hard drive is on one cable and the second drive is all by itself on the other cable. Hopefully then you will be able to access it. If you can, then you will need to check the jumpers on the old hard drive and change it to the opposite setting (master or slave) from which it is now.

Sorry, but I do not use Works, so I do not know where the calendar file is located...

Answer 3

ooh hard question. i cant test and see it if it works, here is my best advice,
you probably need to talk to a tech. but maybe you can try disconnecting the new hard drive (temporarily) so that the old one is the default. it is the best i can say.
the calendar is probably in F:\program files\ in one of the Microsoft folders. you can put all the Microsoft data on a flash drive or CD, then transfer to your new hard drive.

it is a good idea to back up important files on a flash drive or a disk. good luck

Answer 4

There could also be a problem with permissions. Files in the Documents and Settings folder sometimes act funny when you try to access them from another computer. Has something to do with user security, but it's beyond my scope of knowledge exactly why this happens. I had this problem once and I had to boot from a DOS-based utility that could access NTFS files. From there, I was able to copy them to another folder and access them normally, except that the file names were mangled into DOS 8.3 format. I think the name of the website was Active @ NTFS, and the utility was NTFS Reader.

Answer 5

If you can see the files, then it is an access problem, the most common access problem is user permissions. The user your logged in as is not the administrator of the machine and as such does not have a high enough privileges to access other peoples files. Try logging on as an administrator and try again.

Answer 6

the drive parameters might not be defined the same as they were on the old machine and without knowing how the old machine defined them by going into its bios you wont be able to go into bios on the new machine and set them to the same ... so anyway .. the only thing i can suggest is to get an app called getdataback and run it ... it will probably let you retrieve the files off of it ... i think if you google the app you can get a free trial that should get you going ... good luck :)

Answer 7

Best bet is to bring it to the Geek Squad. They can do data recovery for a hard drive that is still operational.

Answer 8

I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.
Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.