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danielf · 15-10-2011, 20:45

OK, so the wife killed our laptop by feeding it tea, and a replacement has arrived.

I took the Hard drive out of the old laptop, and stuck it in a USB caddy to get the data off it. For the most part I've succeeded in that, with the exception of some stuff from a Wordpress site she was working on.

I've got all the Wordpress files, but it looks like some of the settings were written to the database, which hasn't been backed up.

So I figured I'd try to boot the new laptop (Windows 7) from the old Vista drive in the USB caddy. The laptop does give me the option to boot from a USB HDD, but the Vista drive won't boot, and tells me it can't find the OS.

Any thoughts on what could cause this, or is this just Vista telling me it won't run on new hardware?

15-10-2011, 20:45	#1
danielf cf.mega poser Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 16,687	No OS found. OK, so the wife killed our laptop by feeding it tea, and a replacement has arrived. I took the Hard drive out of the old laptop, and stuck it in a USB caddy to get the data off it. For the most part I've succeeded in that, with the exception of some stuff from a Wordpress site she was working on. I've got all the Wordpress files, but it looks like some of the settings were written to the database, which hasn't been backed up. So I figured I'd try to boot the new laptop (Windows 7) from the old Vista drive in the USB caddy. The laptop does give me the option to boot from a USB HDD, but the Vista drive won't boot, and tells me it can't find the OS. Any thoughts on what could cause this, or is this just Vista telling me it won't run on new hardware? __________________ Remember kids: We are blessed with a listening, caring government.