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Originally Posted by iadom
One of motto's is, "if at first you don't succeed, try something else" 
Opened IE, Favorites and created a new folder, copied and pasted the old faves files in and bingo, now I only need to get my Outlook Express address book imported and I will be one happy bunny. I saved that as a csv file but it has changed itself into an Excel file and the new OE is not playing ball. Ah the joys of a new PC ( not)   
I am going to put my old hard drive into the new PC, just need a power cable extension. As the new PC has a SATA drive and the old hard drive is an IDE device, am I correct in thinking that I can just plug the IDE cable into a spare slot on the new MB, and that Windows will just recognise it as another drive without me having to set it as a slave.?? |
I seem to recall having done the same thing with Win98 reinstalls a couple of years back, iadom, and finally discovered the reason was that IE wouldn't import a read-only file - which, of course, a file on a CD always is, and is still if you copy it to a hard drive. Just untick Read Only in file properties and that'll do it - IIRC.
If you have Excel installed, it will set .csv as one of its file associations, but this shouldn't prevent your address book importing it. That's one of the things I never liked about OE, that you can't export in the .ldif format, although you can import.
If you set cable select on any modern IDE drive and use it with an 80 wire cable (you can't get better than ATA33 with a 40 wire one), then you plug the blue plug into your mobo, and the cable will determine master and slave - the drive on the grey plug will be slave and that on the black plug will be master. This is the preferred method with 80 wire cables - YMMV.
HTH Patrick