After years of being happy with Windows ME (unlike many others...nary a problem for me), I finally decided it was time to move up to XP Home.
After a successful upgrade on my son's computer, I developed a problem in the final stages of my upgrade install. With about 11 minutes to go I got an error message that it could not load c:windowswin9xmigDevUpgrdMigrate.dll.
After pushing "OK" to the error message, the machine would back up to the 41 minute mark of the install and begin all over again. I was stuck in this loop and couldn't figure out a way out.
So, I decided to remove the HDD and replace it with a larger drive that I was planning to install as a second storage drive in the machine. I did a clean install with no problem.
The problem arrives when I hook up the original drive now as a slave. I figured I would re-install all my software on the new drive and then be able to access all my data files on the old drive and go from there. Wrong!
While MOST of the old files are there...including my DVD Profiler back-ups (thank goodness!)...I cannot find my "My Documents" folder with all my Word docs or my MyFiles folder with my WordPerfect docs or my My Pictures folder. Also missing are my e-mails and address book from Outlook Express. Amazingly, most everything else seems intact.
Some internet searches have directed me to right-click on the old drive in Windows Explorer and migrate to the Sharing & Security tab. I tried the "sharing" techniques in an attempt to make the folders/files visible, but with no luck. There is no "Security" tab. I tried this in safe mode as well with no success.
I am networked to a machine still running Windows ME. I made the drive available to that machine via the network and could still see nothing.
I have contemplated physically removing the drive and setting it up as a slave on that existing ME machine to see if that would work...but I am starting to have my doubts. I am beginning to wonder if somethying funky happened during the XP install to those files. Maybe its the difference between FAT 32 and NTSF (or whtever the XP file format is called)? But why just those files? I am bewildered.
If I cannot retrieve the files...It is my own fault. Normally I overthink any computer upgrade and have everything as organized and backed up as can be. But this time I blew it in the aftermath of the success of overseeing my son's XP upgrade and failed to back up anything.
Any help anyone?!
A couple of year's worth of Weekly RoundUps are riding on this...although I suppose they really don't have all that much value anymore! Having those darn e-mails back would be nice though....... :frowning:
After a successful upgrade on my son's computer, I developed a problem in the final stages of my upgrade install. With about 11 minutes to go I got an error message that it could not load c:windowswin9xmigDevUpgrdMigrate.dll.
After pushing "OK" to the error message, the machine would back up to the 41 minute mark of the install and begin all over again. I was stuck in this loop and couldn't figure out a way out.
So, I decided to remove the HDD and replace it with a larger drive that I was planning to install as a second storage drive in the machine. I did a clean install with no problem.
The problem arrives when I hook up the original drive now as a slave. I figured I would re-install all my software on the new drive and then be able to access all my data files on the old drive and go from there. Wrong!
While MOST of the old files are there...including my DVD Profiler back-ups (thank goodness!)...I cannot find my "My Documents" folder with all my Word docs or my MyFiles folder with my WordPerfect docs or my My Pictures folder. Also missing are my e-mails and address book from Outlook Express. Amazingly, most everything else seems intact.
Some internet searches have directed me to right-click on the old drive in Windows Explorer and migrate to the Sharing & Security tab. I tried the "sharing" techniques in an attempt to make the folders/files visible, but with no luck. There is no "Security" tab. I tried this in safe mode as well with no success.
I am networked to a machine still running Windows ME. I made the drive available to that machine via the network and could still see nothing.
I have contemplated physically removing the drive and setting it up as a slave on that existing ME machine to see if that would work...but I am starting to have my doubts. I am beginning to wonder if somethying funky happened during the XP install to those files. Maybe its the difference between FAT 32 and NTSF (or whtever the XP file format is called)? But why just those files? I am bewildered.
If I cannot retrieve the files...It is my own fault. Normally I overthink any computer upgrade and have everything as organized and backed up as can be. But this time I blew it in the aftermath of the success of overseeing my son's XP upgrade and failed to back up anything.
Any help anyone?!
A couple of year's worth of Weekly RoundUps are riding on this...although I suppose they really don't have all that much value anymore! Having those darn e-mails back would be nice though....... :frowning: