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Getting files off external hard drive
We had an external hard drive hooked up to our last computer that automatically backed up everything once a week. My dad was trying to copy the files from the hard drive (which was from an XP) to the windows 7. He says he doesn't understand the formatting of Windows 7 and wanted me to figure it out, but I'm not the best at computers and figure this would be easier. He apparently doesn't know how to access the file of the hard drive from the computer to copy the files. I'm afraid that some of the viruses that made our last computer crash will end up on our new computer so I don't want to just plug it in and look around ( I'll let him do that so he can't blame me)
Sorry if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but thanks for any help you can give! :)