cannot see my documents

The formats on the 2 machines must be the same to access files that way

I got a gizmo to attach the HD and I plug it into the USB port on the PC.

both machines are running windows XP, i see the laptop HD in a NEW drive i see all the programs that are on the laptop, but there are no documents of any type (word, excel, pictures, music, etc) in the 'my document file.

where are they?

Message Edited by ydavidy on 05-17-2005 12:13 AM

What is the problem you had that led you to remove the drive from the notebook and mount it in the desktop system? Was there a virus, worm, trojan, or disc corruption?

i had a faulty AC plug that burned out the motherboard, i have many documents on the laptop, so i got a USB 2.5" external enclosure to connect to my PC and i still can not open any document.

any help would be appriciated

 

leduke30, thanks for replying!
Both machines are XP Professional OS, both are Office 2003 files,
David

Yes, but are the Formats the same(both FAT32 or both NTFS)? This PC I am using has W-ME and W-XP Home in a Dual Boot setup. Both are FAT32 because of the W-Me's requirement. I can access, read, create shortcuts etc. from one drive to the other,  even defrag one drive from the other and also pull documets from one drive to the other. When I first set this up, I made the mistake of using NTFS for the W-XP Partition and FAT32 for the W-Me Partition. I built a fence between them! I could still boot to either OS from DOS, but there was no useful cross access, so I deleted and then recreated the upper W-XP partition with Partition Magic, recreated it as a FAT32 Partition, formatted it and then reinstalled W-XP. It has been working fine ever since. Since the largest FAT32 Partition W-XP can use is 32gb, its partition is a bit smaller than I wanted, and the W-ME partition much larger than I needed, but what the hey, it works.

Thanks again leduke30,
Both machines are set with NTFS.
What I do not get is that I have on the 2.5” HDD from the laptop a folder named ‘old my documents (transferred from previous PC 5 years ago) and those files are readable.
David

Stranger and stranger!! That really does not make sense, since your newer files were created by the Same Office Version. Are they Word, Excel or Powerpoint  Files? I have one thought only as a corrective measure; Go to Start/ Settings/Control Panel/Folder Options/View and dot mark Show All Files, then click Apply and OK back to the desktop. If that doesn't help, I am at a loss to explain what is the problem.

Thank u very much leduke30 for your help, when I get home after work, I will give it a shot.
David