Hello. First things first - nice site. Had a browse through the forum and couldn't find an answer to my problem - but not sure how to put it into words. Kinda a newbie to this sort of thing so idiot boards and big drawing pens at the ready...
I owne(d) a Packard Bell Imedia X2413 desktop computer that has died. Not booting but no issue with the hard drive as far as I can tell. It had a good life so not bothered about saving it. However all my music and itunes accounts (which I stupidly didn't back up) is still saved on the hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 (500 GB). I checked the hard drive and it was booting/powering up fine. So following advice on here I bought an Anker USB to SATA converter cable so I could transfer the files on to my new laptop.
Plugged it in, powered up fine... allowed me to read files no problem. The only issue is, when the hard drive was in my desktop computer I was working off two Windows XP profiles - a public one for my GF and an administrator one for me. All the files are readable from the public profile that my Girlfriend used, but I cannot find any files at all for the other. The latter of these had a password whereas my girlfriends one did not. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong as I cannot find any of my photos or music anywhere? I would have assumed it would be obvious and been in the "users" folder where there would be one lot for my girlfriends profile and another for mine (the administrators one). There are a load of files which are just numbers. The folders visible are as follows:
- 1f54dab4e7d973b1614edd4cb9c0f7da
- 92f948a7fe9da42482d687
- Downloads
- NVIDIA
- PerfLogs
- Program Files
- Users
- Windows
Any (idiot proof) help would be GRATEFULLY received. Thanks muchly.
I owne(d) a Packard Bell Imedia X2413 desktop computer that has died. Not booting but no issue with the hard drive as far as I can tell. It had a good life so not bothered about saving it. However all my music and itunes accounts (which I stupidly didn't back up) is still saved on the hard drive. The hard drive in question is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 (500 GB). I checked the hard drive and it was booting/powering up fine. So following advice on here I bought an Anker USB to SATA converter cable so I could transfer the files on to my new laptop.
Plugged it in, powered up fine... allowed me to read files no problem. The only issue is, when the hard drive was in my desktop computer I was working off two Windows XP profiles - a public one for my GF and an administrator one for me. All the files are readable from the public profile that my Girlfriend used, but I cannot find any files at all for the other. The latter of these had a password whereas my girlfriends one did not. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong as I cannot find any of my photos or music anywhere? I would have assumed it would be obvious and been in the "users" folder where there would be one lot for my girlfriends profile and another for mine (the administrators one). There are a load of files which are just numbers. The folders visible are as follows:
- 1f54dab4e7d973b1614edd4cb9c0f7da
- 92f948a7fe9da42482d687
- Downloads
- NVIDIA
- PerfLogs
- Program Files
- Users
- Windows
Any (idiot proof) help would be GRATEFULLY received. Thanks muchly.
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