Hello all. I am in need of assistance.
My old Computer (Dell Inspiron) died. It appears the mother board was.shot. The Old Computer fan spins when booting but nothing loads. I tried disconnecting the hard drives and booting just to see if anything would happen but I got nothing.
As a result I bought a new computer (Dell XPS 8490). When the new computer came I removed the old hard drive and installed it as a second drive in the XPS 8940. I thought I would just be able to transfer the old files that way.
When I booted the computer I think it attempted to dual boot.
I then thought it was best to remove the hard drive and attach via a transfer cable.
I now have the old hard drive attached via a transfer cable and can access the drive like an external hard drive.
In explorer the drive looks kind of funky. It shows up as F: do not use and H: I can see that there is about 75% of the drive used. I can see users and program files.
The issue is that I can't see the my documents folder which contained all the data I want transfer.
I can see all my program files and such.
It is almost like my profile on the old hard drive was overriden by the new profile.
I then tried to disconnect the new hard drive and boot from the old hard drive. The drive came up as non bootable.
Any help would be appreciated.
My old Computer (Dell Inspiron) died. It appears the mother board was.shot. The Old Computer fan spins when booting but nothing loads. I tried disconnecting the hard drives and booting just to see if anything would happen but I got nothing.
As a result I bought a new computer (Dell XPS 8490). When the new computer came I removed the old hard drive and installed it as a second drive in the XPS 8940. I thought I would just be able to transfer the old files that way.
When I booted the computer I think it attempted to dual boot.
I then thought it was best to remove the hard drive and attach via a transfer cable.
I now have the old hard drive attached via a transfer cable and can access the drive like an external hard drive.
In explorer the drive looks kind of funky. It shows up as F: do not use and H: I can see that there is about 75% of the drive used. I can see users and program files.
The issue is that I can't see the my documents folder which contained all the data I want transfer.
I can see all my program files and such.
It is almost like my profile on the old hard drive was overriden by the new profile.
I then tried to disconnect the new hard drive and boot from the old hard drive. The drive came up as non bootable.
Any help would be appreciated.