I am working on someone’s new VISTA pc and their old XP system died. They asked me to transfer their old files from the old computer to the new one running Windows VISTA. I thought that would be easy, so I took the hard drive out of the old computer and hooked it up to an external drive enclosure, and then connected it to the new VISTA computer via a USB cable. I can check the properties of the user’s profile and it shows 200+ MB but when I browse into the documents folder nothing shows up. I am guessing that NTFS is hiding the files from me??
Can someone please tell me how I can get the files off the old hard drive? I am at a loss…
The old computer is DEAD so there is no possibility of just starting it up and saving the files to a USB key. ;(