David J. Craig

What has this to do with Vista? I have a bridge in Brooklyn and some
beautiful waterfront property in Florida for sale. I guess you believe
anyone who comes up with absurd 'fix'. Take the old computer to a computer
store - not one of the 'Big Box' stores such as Best Buy. Ask them how much
and to tell you if they need to send it to a data recovery company as that
will cost several hundred dollars.

"CMKUbLU304" <CMKUbLU304@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a laptop with windows XP on it and windows failed to load on me one
> day...so now I have a new laptop because we couldn't figure out what was
> wrong with it. There was no indication that the hard drive was damaged, so
> I
> was told I could access the hard drive on my old laptop by using a 2 way
> USB
> cord and plug it into another, working computer. It would then act just
> like
> an external hard drive. Only when I did this, nothing happened. I thought
> maybe the old laptop had to be turned on for it to work, but when I tried
> the
> same thing with my home computer, which was on, it didn't work either.
> Does
> anybody know what's wrong or how else to access the hard drive from my old
> laptop?
> thanks.
> -Camille