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Moving Hard Drive to new OS
I have an Acer Aspire (Windows Vista HP 32bit) that won't get out of startup repair. I made many hardware manipulations and did my best to get out of it and I finally called it quits. But that's not the problem. I took out the hard drive and bought a custom computer that I built without using any parts from my Acer Aspire (but the HDD). The hard drive I bought for it is a Samsung SP 1 TB and I also purchased Windows 7 HP 64bit. I booted it up and everything went well until I tried hooking up my old Seagate with 2 years of stuff on it from my Acer Aspire. My new build read both partitioned drives (160 GB and 160 GB), but the only files on the C Drive it read were program files and useless stuff. The meat and potatoes (my documents, pictures, videos, projects, music, etc...) I cannot find. Ive tried stuff in the Device Manager and Disk Management but I can't seem to find it. I'm worried the only way I can retrieve is back on my broken Acer. All help is appreciated.