My PC failed on me.  I believe its the motherboard. Anyway, its too late for the PC as I have sold parts of it.  I had a lot of files on the hard drive that I would like access to (40Gig).  How can I move the files?
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Since you no longer have a PC the least expensive way would be to take it to a shop and have them burn the files you need on CD's.  If you had or possibly have access to another PC the procedure is pretty straight forward.  Connect this drive as a slave drive.
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It's kinda hard to understand the question your asking? The best thing to do is to add more details to this question. Give as much info about the pc and the problem your encountering (Ex. what OS are you running, what os are you trying to load the files on to, make and model of the pc, what files are you trying to transfer, etc.). also if you are getting an error message when trying to complete the task, include it in the details section of the question.
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Several ways to go.  Get a new C drive, format it, make it bootable, put your OS on it (if you have no original disks you are in trouble) and them make the old C drive a D drive by playing with the jumpers, putting an extra set of connectors to the motherboard and playing with the BIOS at start up to see both drives.\n\nThen drag and drop files.\n\nAnother alternative requires a new C drive and for you to get an external hard drive box (Comp USA about $50) that connects via USB 2.0 or firewire.\n\nTry and drag and drop from this.\n\nI have a fried main drive in which the file allocation table is corrupted so only some files will transfer and if an attempt is made to move files from a corrupted spot it crashes the whole system.\n\nThe data is usually never corrupted, unless a virus was at work.  It is the FAT or file allocation tables that are having problems.  The biggest problem is that your data is NOT contiguous, in other words some if it is here, some of it is there and some of it is way, way, way at the end.  Called file fragmentation, which is why you need to de-frag every so often to collect all the "addendum" to your word files that get parked seven miles away from where the original document is stored.\n\nEveryone needs to back up their important files.  If you really have important stuff you need a RAID system (dual hard drives that store the same data on separate drives at the same time).\n\nIn this day and age of $80 hard drives I'd buy an external one and copy everything over via the USB port so you always have a backup -- including a back up of your OS and boot record!\n\nThe only things you generally can't copy are active  DAT files (e.g. USER.DAT, which is your boot up windows configuration that sets up your desktop) NAV and SWAP (windows virtual memory) files, which must be copied from COMMAND PROMPT or DOS MODE.
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The easiest thing to do is just ask a friend to email the files to you, but if you want you can buy a floppy drive (if you can find it) for probably pretty low, although I've never seen one myself.\nYour alternatives are either buying a drive, taking one out of an old computer, or just using another computer to access the files, and either put them on a USB memory stick, email them, or print them out.\n\nI suggest just using another computer and emailing them to yourself, if you know someone who has a computer with a floppy drive, it shouldn't be too hard to find.
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You need not to use the PC (if the HD sector where the original document was stored gets overwritten, the data is gone for good). Then find a recovery software (Davory or Recover My Files can do the work) and try to find your files.
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The best way will be use the HDD as slave to some other harddisk and tranfer the data.\n\nIn safe mode USB drives won't work, because there only the minimal resources are loaded. \n\nIf you can log into safe mode try restoring your machine to a previous stable point.
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Hope's not lost, just get a disk recovery tool and there you go. yOU CAN GET IT FROM HERE: http://www.download.com/Recover-My-Files-Data-Recovery/3000-2248_4-10542385.html
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Have you got any data on the drive you want to keep ?\n\nIf not just make a boot disk ( www.bootdisk.com ) and use fdisk to partition the drive and then install windows.\n\nIf you do have data then I suggest you connect the hard drive to another machine as a slave and back it up and then put it back into the machine and format it and re install windows.\n\nThere are other ways of backing up the data, please post back and let me know if you need further help.
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Just save it to your Hard Drive (use the CD for archiving) and there should be no problems. Otherwise copy the file from your cd to your hard drive and then change its properties
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You could always take out the hard drive and install it into your new computer as a slave drive, hopefully the drive isn't fried but if it isn't you will be able to explore the drive and drag any files wanted onto your new drive. \nIf the drive is in good condition, you can then reformat the drive and keep the drive as a slave for your new computer
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There are several ways to fix this such as an in place upgrade or getting a good copy of the file from another computer and copying it onto this machine. Otherwise if you just want to get the files then there are several other method you can use such as putting the hard drive in a second computer and just pulling off the files. Also, if the system is fast enough, you could get a CD bootable version of Linux called SLAX which you startup from and then you can access your hard drive that way. Or you could probably boot using a windows 95 boot disk, but then you would have to be familiar with DOS. Any relatively computer savvy person should be able to help you.
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Using a program such as Partition Magic you can accomplish your goal. Bad news though, Many times people lose all their data when attempting to do what you are talking about.  Partition Magic if used correctly will not do that.  Using this program if you are not computer saavy could be a disaster.  A computer shop should be able to do it for you at a cost of 25 to 50 dollars.\n\nPerhaps you should just tranfer most of your files and programs to the D: drive.\n\nHave a Great Day
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agreed, you likely have formatted it using FAT file system.\n\nif you have xp you should 'convert' your hard drive to NTFS.
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It's possible, and a good idea- but there are some hoops to jump- when you plug it in, the computer will see 2 hard drives, each with an operating system.  You will have the option of booting either one.  Boot into the new, and open the old to move your files from the old into the new.  When all you want from the old is on the new, Right-click the old and choose format to wipe it clean.  Format using NTFS- that's the Windows XP format- do not quick format either, because quick skips the error checking and repair stage.  When that is done, you have a empty hard drive to fill as you please.\n\nIf it does not work when you first boot up, the jumper settings are wrong- next to the cables, there are 3 pairs of pins, with a little plastic jumper block connecting one pair- probably the pair on the right.  Move the  jumper over one (with the power OFF), then try again.  Repeat as needed.
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Start by looking in your Documents, Movies, Pictures, and Desktop folders for old, large files that you know you don't need any more. You can through those out but you might want back them up first. \n\nAdding RAM won't help with your hard drive, but a second hard drive would probably be a good idea. Just make sure it's a Firewire drive and it should show up when you plug it in. You can format it HFS+ if it isn't already by using Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) and then move files to it. That should free up plenty of space. \n\nDepending on your needs, it may be time to consider getting a Macbook. They're lots more powerful, and they've got larger hard drives. The smallest one is now 60GB.
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The best way is using Ghost.  Just run a ghost image of your pc and put in on a USB hard drive or any other media you please (of course needs to fit)   That is hands down the best way to do a Bare Metal Restore.  You could also mirror your drive using a Raid controler etc. and keep that drive else where as a back up copy...
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Hmm, i think it's a dead end. Buy a new hard drive and do not buy Dell PCs next time, they are ready to blow up. Or try booting up in a few days, there may still be miracles. If so, quickly backup all data .