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Ok, I did a search with no results.
My daughter bought a new Lenovo w/ Vista.
She uses EZ Dental 2003, which would not run on WinXP when she first got it.
While setting up the new computer, I just slaved the old Win98se Hard drive into the new Vista machine to make it easier to transfer her files (Thumb drive problems with Win98se).
After booting, I look in the old drive, and there are no familiar "Windows" files on the drive.
All the folders were re-named some silly names, like ECOND, etc. I couldn't even open these files!
So, I removed the drive, set it back to master, and put it in the old machine. No Operating System Found"!
Slaved it to another Win98se machine and there are now no folders present at all, just one unidentified file (which shows as being over 2 Gigs, which was about how full her old HDD was).
Did Vista convert something on the Win 98 files?
Anyone else experience this? How do you fix it?
Think they can be recovered?
Of course, she was supposed to back up her EZ Dental files every day, but she forgot, and I didn't think to before entering into this quest either!
The latest backup I found was 8 months old, on a CD, got those back into the system, but had to do a batchfile conversion to do it!
I would just like to get her files back up to date if possible, so that she doesn't have to manually enter everything for the past 8 months!
My daughter bought a new Lenovo w/ Vista.
She uses EZ Dental 2003, which would not run on WinXP when she first got it.
While setting up the new computer, I just slaved the old Win98se Hard drive into the new Vista machine to make it easier to transfer her files (Thumb drive problems with Win98se).
After booting, I look in the old drive, and there are no familiar "Windows" files on the drive.
All the folders were re-named some silly names, like ECOND, etc. I couldn't even open these files!
So, I removed the drive, set it back to master, and put it in the old machine. No Operating System Found"!
Slaved it to another Win98se machine and there are now no folders present at all, just one unidentified file (which shows as being over 2 Gigs, which was about how full her old HDD was).
Did Vista convert something on the Win 98 files?
Anyone else experience this? How do you fix it?
Think they can be recovered?
Of course, she was supposed to back up her EZ Dental files every day, but she forgot, and I didn't think to before entering into this quest either!
The latest backup I found was 8 months old, on a CD, got those back into the system, but had to do a batchfile conversion to do it!
I would just like to get her files back up to date if possible, so that she doesn't have to manually enter everything for the past 8 months!
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