13 months ago, I bought an EMachine's computer that ran XP. Long story short, the mother board apparently died on it unrelated to any user error and was just a poorly constructed computer. (EMachines support sucks too) Since it was 3 weeks outside of warranty, they wouldn't do anything so I had to buy a brand new computer. Since EMachines was so terrible, I ended up getting a Compaq Presario.
Before I bought the new computer, I brought the old one in to Best Buy's geek squad (where I bought it) and they said that the hard drive was fine and they could see all the files on it when they put it in one of their computers. The old hard drive has a lot of videos/pics of my daughter that I would prefer not to lose, so I wanted to recover that to the new computer.
I took out the old hard drive and plugged it into the remaining port for a secondary hard drive in my new compaq that is running vista on it. For some reason, once I plug it in and restart, the computer tries to boot up with XP and gets all screwed up. I can't get it to function like a secondary/external hard drive that you can see from the my computer window. Compaq's IM online tech support quickly tried to help me adjust a jumper setting (?) but that just started to boot up in vista and then switch over to XP if you can believe that.
How do I get my computer to see this hard drive without trying to boot everything through it? Any help would be appreciated. thanks.
Jeff
Before I bought the new computer, I brought the old one in to Best Buy's geek squad (where I bought it) and they said that the hard drive was fine and they could see all the files on it when they put it in one of their computers. The old hard drive has a lot of videos/pics of my daughter that I would prefer not to lose, so I wanted to recover that to the new computer.
I took out the old hard drive and plugged it into the remaining port for a secondary hard drive in my new compaq that is running vista on it. For some reason, once I plug it in and restart, the computer tries to boot up with XP and gets all screwed up. I can't get it to function like a secondary/external hard drive that you can see from the my computer window. Compaq's IM online tech support quickly tried to help me adjust a jumper setting (?) but that just started to boot up in vista and then switch over to XP if you can believe that.
How do I get my computer to see this hard drive without trying to boot everything through it? Any help would be appreciated. thanks.
Jeff