My friend's computer shut off one night and and wouldn't come back on. I looked at it and tested all the parts on my computer. I found out the problem was the motherboard. All the other parts were fine. Instead of buying a new one she was thinking about buying whole new computer. She still wanted all the music, movies, ect on her old hard drive so I was planning on extracting the files she wanted and putting them on disk. I installed her hard drive on my computer as the slave drive. Everything seems to be working fine except I cannot find all her music, picture and video files. All her program and program files are still on there but all other files are missing.
Anyone know what may be causing this? Can I just not read them or has something happened that caused them to all be deleted? Both hard drives have windows xp installed on them and both hard drives are set to their proper jumper settings. Any insight or advice is welcome. Thank you
2007-02-07 16:36:25 · 5 answers · asked by askewmew 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
When you install her hard drive in your computer than all the files and program are there mean if your friend has not deleted song and movie it should be there. check in documents and settings folder in her hard disk and click on her user folder and check there in my documents inside that there will be my music and my video folder check it there. if you don't find than click on start, Search, click on all files and folders. type *.mp3 after than click on more advance options. select hidden files and folders checkbox. after that click on search, if her songs and movie are hidden than it will display all. stil if you could not find than use any third party recovery software to recover all the lost files.
2007-02-07 17:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by Pramod 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What version of windows was used to format the slave drive? If it was windows 98, the files will be in FAT and not in NTFS. That may be the reason that XP cannot read the files.
2007-02-07 18:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not ask her where she's got them hidden?
Or better yet, when she gets her new computer, you install the old drive as slave on her new computer and let her worry about it?
2007-02-07 16:41:44 · answer #3 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi. Set your computer to display all files. (Ask if you don't know how.) Do a search on all files with .jpg, .mp3, .m4p (if iTunes) etc. Good luck!
2007-02-07 17:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep it simple maaaaaaaaaaaannnnn
2007-02-07 16:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋