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Discussion in 'Technology' started by jimpo1, Jun 25, 2011.

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  1. jimpo1

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    #1 jimpo1, Jun 25, 2011
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    My kids spilled water on my old laptop. Keyword, OLD. It's toast. No lights, no sounds, no nothing. It was running XP.

    I have a shiny new HP on my lap. It's cool. i5, 6g ram, 640g drive. Sweet. Running Windows 7 Home.

    I have an iPad w/ 800 songs on it that was tied to my old laptop. I want to tie the iPad to the new laptop, which is done, but it only show my 'purchased' songs on the new laptop, not the rest of my iPad library. I have to move the library.

    I took out the hard drive from the toast laptop, and bought it a case with a USB cable. Plugged it into the new laptop. MY DATA LIVES!!!

    Now, I want to import my iTunes library from the old hard drive, to the new laptop. I can see it. It's there. But the security from the old computer won't let me move anything. It almost seems like it wants me to get admin access a file at a time. 800 songs, remember?

    I think the initial help I need is, how do I "remove" the security from the old drive? It seems to let me do folders, but then won't let me view files. Very frustrating. Do NOT want to lose this music library.

    Thoughts would be appreciated.
     
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    #2 Schatten, Jun 27, 2011
    Are you importing the files over? Or are you copying over the folder to your new-local drive and then importing them?
     
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    #3 jimpo1, Jun 27, 2011
    Tried both, neither worked.
     
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    #4 Schimpf, Jun 28, 2011
    lacking info, but run checkdisk /r & then if it still does not work /f (doubt that'll help).

    or just Google, that's the best bet to all of lifes problems
     
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    #5 Schatten, Jun 28, 2011
    Then why suggest it? The issue is about permissions, not data integrity. Sorry to be harsh, but sending someone off on a wild goose chase doesn't help resolve an issue.

    Jim, I had forgotten about UAC which is the user access control. If that is what is giving you gripe about administrator permissions, turn it off. Start - Control Panel - System and Security - Change User Account Control Settings (located under Action Center) - move the bar down to Never notify. You'll need to restart for the changes to take place.

    Now, if it is a file permission issue where you need the files have a permission on them from the old drive, you'll need to take a different approach.
     
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    #7 jimpo1, Jun 28, 2011
    I need to get access to the permissions on the old HD. I think I've located a similar unit, and I'm hoping I can plug in my old HD to this laptop and remove the persmissions. Will keep you posted.
     
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    #9 powerpig, Jun 28, 2011
    Go to the bios of the new unit and select "boot" the order of the boot devices will come up. Pick the external drive as the first boot device and exclude the laptop hd.

    Shutdown and reboot. Hit F8 to go to safe mode. You can now change your user permissions but better yet, be able to drag and drop your files to the new drive. Hope this helps.
     
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    #10 jimpo1, Jun 28, 2011
    This was a great idea and my son and I both knew it would work. Sadly, my new laptop didn't like the XP on the old drive. Damn.
     
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    #11 powerpig, Jun 29, 2011
    Is it a 64 bit system on the new laptop?
     
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    #12 jimpo1, Jun 29, 2011
    No idea, but it wouldn't boot on the old drive. I got blue screens with error messages. Tried plan C just now, it's not working either.

    Need that old box that matches that one I pulled the drive from. Hopefully get that today or tomorrow.
     

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