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need help with crashed laptop and Windows Easy Transfer
My Compaq dv2000 laptop burnt up after water was spilled on keyboard. So I bought a new windows 7 toshiba satellite t135. I managed to remove the old 40 gig 2 1/2 hard drive from the Compaq and bought a Vantec USB kit that connects to the old ide compaq hard drive. When i plugged it into the usb on the new toshiba it recognizes it and i can surf through the old files i want to restore but it sees it and the new drive on the toshiba both as "internal drives" or local drives, not external, when I go through the wizard on WET. From what I can tell, the Easy Transfer only works with external drives? I watched a youtube on WET and I'm not ever getting a "file" to transfer off of the old PC. I have gotten to the point where I can drill down to each individual files and transfer one at a time but that will take forever and not transfer my settings and email info, etc. When I firt bought the vantec adapter, it said that WET had to be installed on "both computers", so me like a dummy assumed the old hard drive would be consdiered "old computer" and I downloaded and installed WET on that old drive. I also have it installed on the new drive. I wonder if there is a way to (or if I need to) deinstall from old drive? I have attched a picture of the WET screen hwing the two hard drives. D is the old one; notice both are local.
Any ideas?