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By: SPACED OUT QWERTY

SPACED OUT QWERTY — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:46:54 +0000

IT’S SO SIMPLE PEOPLE, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO YOUR PROFILE DIRECTORY:
C:\Documents and Settings\yourprofile\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\someweirdlettersand#’s.default AND RIGHT CLICK(ANYWHERE IN THE BACKROUND), CLICK PROPERTIES, AND UNCHECK THE READ ONLY BOX, CLICK APLLY, THEN CLICK “APPLY TO CHANGES TO THIS FOLDER, SUBFOLDERS, AND FILES”, CLICK OK, AND YOUR DONE, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE BACK TO NORMAL. POSTED BY SPACE.

By: Steve McGrath

Steve McGrath — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:11:33 +0000

Denise, go to a local computer shop and ask them to install the hard drive for you in the case. That should be much cheaper.

If you feel a tiny adventurous, you could install the drive yourself in the HD case. In most case, you have a connectors for: the power, IDE to USB that’s the larger cable, 4 screws to hold the hard drive to the case controller board, and 2-4 screw for the face place outside the case.

Bring the hard drive with you if you don’t know the type(IDE, SATA).

You can email me since I want to keep the comment on the subject

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:55:51 +0000

Thanks Steve I will check into getting one. If I get stuck will you help me? I am definitely non-techie! :_(

I should then just go to Besy Buy and ask for an USB external case?
Is that like my scan disk?

By: Steve McGrath

Steve McGrath — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:42:46 +0000

Denise, I know how you feel. I don’t mind doing other post of this kind.

I would suggest that you buy and USB external case($20) for your hard drive(xp). When you plug it, you should see other partition(s) and then you will be able to recover, at least, the data(firefox, email, my documents…). That’s the simplest way for non-tech persons.

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:31:13 +0000

I sure would be interested to hear all you found out about combining old xp hard drive into new vista. My vista mother board crashed a couple of months back. I had to get out and get a new computer ASAP and of course it was a vista.

Best Buy stated that they could install my old hard drive into my new vista for a major fee of course. I am thinking this cannot be too difficult but I have no clue as to how to do this. I have all my data sitting on my old hard drive. If I had $350 extra dollars to spare I would let Best Buy install another mother board. But at the current moment that is not an option.

I would like to see more posts on xp versus vista.