Re[2]: Easiest method of moving to a larger disk drive

[Jimmy Snowden <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roscoe,

I would add the old hard drive to the new computer as a second drive.  There are always extra plugs for power and IDE cables are easy to buy to hook it up as a secondary drive.  You do not need to mount it as a folder but you can.  I wont go into it Windows has a help on it.  Then when you crank up your email program you can copy the old files or import them to the program.  They are all different.  Google is a big help if you are using Microsoft programs for email.  They are the goofy ones on the block.  Files buried down under shared or common files folder or some such.  Almost all email programs have all the emial in huge files.  They are not like documents in Word.  I use The Bat.  I can save an email as a .txt file.  Not sure on Outlook.  Been too many years since I quit it.  Not so easy to pull up emails off a CD anyway.  Attachments can be saved off an email to a folder and opened with whatever program you need for them.  Easier to just add that old drive and copy documents to the new document folder etc.  Also easy to copy any other thing you might need.  You can't copy programs.  They have to be installed but you can copy files such as Quicken or Quick Books files, documents from Word or Excel files and on and on.

I always just move my drives.  I also use Casper to have a good backup all the time of my whole system.  That way when you need a larger drive you just put it in and use Casper to copy the old drive to it.
Casper is basically automatic where DOS works but I've made mistakes before and it becomes a pain to fix.

Google is your best friend to find out how.


Jimmy



 I would like to know more about this and how to do it.
Also if one is getting a new computer and they take theri old hard drive and
make it a folder on the new computer?  Then be able to get saved files,
emails, data off the old hard drive with the new computer?
 Another question along the same lines of this.  Is there a way to save any
old email and atachments to a CD to be viewed when one wants to in the
future?
 I am thinking of getting a new computer but have many emails that I want to
save and also have other stuff on the hard drive that I may need later.
 Any good and easy ideas for the non-computer-technical person?

 Thanks,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roscoe" <Roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "John Bowles" <johnbowles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: Easiest method of moving to a larger disk drive


> Hello John,

> Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 8:28:50 AM, you wrote:

> > I am looking to increase the size of one of my disk drives "the C drive"
> > with minimum pain of returning data and and software settings.

> You could just add another drive and mount it as a folder - that way you
> don't change any of your settings and you gain more space if that is all
> that you need. Cheap and quick to do.

> PM me if you need a hand on the details.

> --
> Best regards,
>  Roscoe                          mail to: Roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx