XP transfer from second hard drive

I have a new installation of Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I have a
second hard drive that was originaly an XP pro installation which is
not bootable but can be plugged in as a second drive "D:\" on the
vista system and files can be transfered on at a time. Ive tried to
use the vista migration but do not see an option to transfer from an
on board drive (only an external). As I am new to Vista I cannot
figure out a work around either. I am weary of just copying all of
the old My Documents and pasting them into the Vista My Documents
because Vista appears to be set up differently.

Can some one point me in the right direction to transfer my old data.
Thanks

Note as the old drive is not bootable I cannot install migration onto
it

Robert H wrote:

> I have a new installation of Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I have a
> second hard drive that was originaly an XP pro installation which is
> not bootable but can be plugged in as a second drive "D:\" on the
> vista system and files can be transfered on at a time. Ive tried to
> use the vista migration but do not see an option to transfer from an
> on board drive (only an external). As I am new to Vista I cannot
> figure out a work around either. I am weary of just copying all of
> the old My Documents and pasting them into the Vista My Documents
> because Vista appears to be set up differently.
>
> Can some one point me in the right direction to transfer my old data.
> Thanks
>
> Note as the old drive is not bootable I cannot install migration onto
> it

There is no "My Documents" in Vista. Under the Users directory you'll see a
folder for your own user account. In that folder are more directories,
Documents, Music, Pictures, Downloads. Copy the data from your old hard
drive to whichever of the Vista directories you'd like. There is no other
way of doing this. I'm not sure why copying/pasting should be so wearying.
Are you getting error messages? You may need to take ownership of the
files.

Malke
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Robert H wrote:
> I have a new installation of Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I have a
> second hard drive that was originaly an XP pro installation which is
> not bootable but can be plugged in as a second drive "D:\" on the
> vista system and files can be transfered on at a time. Ive tried to
> use the vista migration but do not see an option to transfer from an
> on board drive (only an external). As I am new to Vista I cannot
> figure out a work around either. I am weary of just copying all of
> the old My Documents and pasting them into the Vista My Documents
> because Vista appears to be set up differently.
>
> Can some one point me in the right direction to transfer my old data.
> Thanks
>
> Note as the old drive is not bootable I cannot install migration onto
> it
>

You can highlight as many files as you want and right click and copy and
then paste. You don't have to do them one at a time.
just highlight one file hold down the shift key the select another file
and everything in between is highlighted. If yuo want to pick specific
files use the control key instead of the shift key.

gls858

thanks to you both. I know about copying multiple files etc. I was
just overwelmed with the interface differnces between XP and Vista and
the file strucure diffences. Im sure Ill get used to it just like with
XP...
Thanks again.

Have you accomplished transfering your files?
I have the same issue. But I am having problems booting once I add old hard
drive.
What am I missing?

"Robert H" wrote:

> I have a new installation of Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I have a
> second hard drive that was originaly an XP pro installation which is
> not bootable but can be plugged in as a second drive "D:\" on the
> vista system and files can be transfered on at a time. Ive tried to
> use the vista migration but do not see an option to transfer from an
> on board drive (only an external). As I am new to Vista I cannot
> figure out a work around either. I am weary of just copying all of
> the old My Documents and pasting them into the Vista My Documents
> because Vista appears to be set up differently.
>
> Can some one point me in the right direction to transfer my old data.
> Thanks
>
> Note as the old drive is not bootable I cannot install migration onto
> it
>
>