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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: CKB on April 05, 2006, 02:36:48 PM

Title: Changing a slave drive to a master drive?
Post by: CKB on April 05, 2006, 02:36:48 PM

My 5 year old Dell will not boot, but I can access the hard drive in our new computer, so most of our files are accessible.  (We contacted dell about the boot problem, the power supply needs to be replaced, but the part isn’t available anymore so we just got a new computer)  However, since I’m an accountant & work from home, I had a password on my login name, protecting many of my client’s files.  Unfortunately, I can’t access my “My Documents” on the old hard drive because of the password.  My user file folder says there are zero files, which I’m sure isn’t true.

Can anyone help me with either booting either of our new computers (new Dell or new eMachines) with the old hard drive as master (instead of slave) or with removing the password on the slave hard drive?  Any suggestions would be most appreciated!  I know the password, I’m just not sure how to get rid of it!

Oh, and all the computers are desktops and all are running Windows XP home.

Thanks!

Christine (who will never forget to back up client files again!)

Title: Re: Changing a slave drive to a master drive?
Post by: pcdoc4christ on April 05, 2006, 03:51:44 PM

Duplicate post.   Please post replies here:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1144269158