My mom's XP computer died (power supply gave up the ghost and killed the motherboard too).
I got the old hard drive out and hooked it up to my computer (win7) to get the data off. It was only a 200ish gigabyte drive so I just copied the whole drive to a folder on my 1TB external and gave that to my mom.
My mom is now telling me that she can't find any of the user directories or files that would have been on the desktop. I haven't plugged her drive back in to check, but I figured I'd ask here while I'm at work. I think my mom knows enough to figure out where these files should be since she does IT support at work.
Is there any reason why my technique wouldn't work? Are the XP user files protected somehow?
I got the old hard drive out and hooked it up to my computer (win7) to get the data off. It was only a 200ish gigabyte drive so I just copied the whole drive to a folder on my 1TB external and gave that to my mom.
My mom is now telling me that she can't find any of the user directories or files that would have been on the desktop. I haven't plugged her drive back in to check, but I figured I'd ask here while I'm at work. I think my mom knows enough to figure out where these files should be since she does IT support at work.
Is there any reason why my technique wouldn't work? Are the XP user files protected somehow?