Hardware help please ...

[EmporerEJ]

Wow....
I've been migrating drives for years.
My stack of drives waiting for a home is getting high.
How do you guys move all the data from machine to machine?
To me, that's always the biggest nightmare to the eventual, and necessary machine upgrade.
I usually, slowly, move into the new machine....bit by bit.

[MRock]

Well, it turns out the power plug and the data hd plug on the ribbon are some new fangled configuration on the Vista, so I could not do what I wanted. I ended up installing the drive to another XP machine that I use for DVD authoring. No biggy, just not the machine I now use the most. I recovered the artwork I needed and the music DVD's and CD's have been mailed. I hate getting behind on my orders. I have about 3 other hard drives I need to pull from some old machines and recover some content too.

Thanx for the replies. It's all good now.

[MRock]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

Wow....
I've been migrating drives for years.
My stack of drives waiting for a home is getting high.
How do you guys move all the data from machine to machine?
To me, that's always the biggest nightmare to the eventual, and necessary machine upgrade.
I usually, slowly, move into the new machine....bit by bit.

I have my login/pw stuff and spread sheets backed up on a disc and I catalog all of our videos on CD's by scene and group them together by DVD release. I can be up and running on a new machine in a matter of hours .... but I still hate doing it. I had to go searching for info on 2 programs this last time, but I'm getting better with every new machine switch lol.