Recent content by denno

Thank you. That's almost above my pay grade, but I get it in principle and will look up how to do it and see if it works. :) Appreciate it.

Well, we'll let it ride in neutral. Thank you for your reply For the record, in case I didn't spell it out I had the pulled HDD plugged into the new laptop by USB Explorer showed the contents as what you see under the C drive: Users, Program files, that stuff. (Going to Users did not produce...

Y'know, I gotta spell it out, though it's likely a waste of my equally valuable time. The first reply to my request for help essentially told me I was wasting the time of the people on this forum, although my post had explained how a "simple search on explorer" had not worked, and I was asking...

Pretty unfriendly and defensive place. 'Bye now.

Irks me, too, to have to answer people who apparently did not read my question. Or my update: nobody answered because the question was only vetted by admin and posted yesterday. Cheers, denno

Hi In the three days since I submitted this post, I found my answer: boot up to the old HDD. Regards, denno

Greetings My old laptop has been wonky for some time, and I have bought a new one and have been getting it set up. The latest stuff on the old one, for a few months, is not backed up. Today it would not start. As I have done once before, I removed the hard drive from the old computer and...