Afternoon folks
I've fairly recently had to replace my aged laptop. Basically it was getting very hot, so had a stab at taking it apart to clean the crud from it's internals, made a bit of a fist of it and when putting it back together, damaged the keyboard connection. I did manage to get a fix sorted (with a piece of thin plastic and parcel tape!) so was able to get the majority of my files and stuff copied to the new laptop.
However, the success of my Heath Robinson fix lulled me into a false sense of security and thus I didn't get round to copying everything. Bit of a mistake, as going back to find something earlier this week, and the laptop powered up, flickered for a bit, then died completely. Guessing either power supply goosed or motherboard gone?
So, I've now got a caddy into which I have popped the old drive, and the new W10 machine is reading it with no problem. However, I can already see that I'm not accessing everything, as the old drive was partitioned as C:/ and E:/ and only one is visible. Oddly, on initial booting, this appeared to be C:/ as it showed "Program Files" and "Users" etc, but now only showing folders I have created with no obvious way back
So, how do I access everything on the drive? Also, is there any way I can boot from the drive? This would be useful as the old drive has Windows Vista on, and there's a program on it (Superbase) that I can' run from W10!
Any advice would be appreciated!
I've fairly recently had to replace my aged laptop. Basically it was getting very hot, so had a stab at taking it apart to clean the crud from it's internals, made a bit of a fist of it and when putting it back together, damaged the keyboard connection. I did manage to get a fix sorted (with a piece of thin plastic and parcel tape!) so was able to get the majority of my files and stuff copied to the new laptop.
However, the success of my Heath Robinson fix lulled me into a false sense of security and thus I didn't get round to copying everything. Bit of a mistake, as going back to find something earlier this week, and the laptop powered up, flickered for a bit, then died completely. Guessing either power supply goosed or motherboard gone?
So, I've now got a caddy into which I have popped the old drive, and the new W10 machine is reading it with no problem. However, I can already see that I'm not accessing everything, as the old drive was partitioned as C:/ and E:/ and only one is visible. Oddly, on initial booting, this appeared to be C:/ as it showed "Program Files" and "Users" etc, but now only showing folders I have created with no obvious way back
So, how do I access everything on the drive? Also, is there any way I can boot from the drive? This would be useful as the old drive has Windows Vista on, and there's a program on it (Superbase) that I can' run from W10!
Any advice would be appreciated!
