ok its a long story but here it goes. my friends e machine died. needs a new motherboard. he bought a new dell e520 system. it has a sata type hdd. he wants files from his emachine. He is willing to give me the emachine and i will put the emachine hdd in my dell 8250 system. Im adding it as a slave. that is no problem hooking it up. my question now is if there are folders on his desktop how do i go about getting them from  his drive. His drive will become d:\ on my 8250. I can then burn his files using drag to disc. I will be using a dvd burner for his files. thank god his new dell has a dvd burner. when i look on his drive where do i find his desktop folders. Anyone know where they would be located on the hdd. Is it in a windows folder. I think this is the only thing i need help with as of now.

 

I cant believe that emachines has a aggreement with microsoft that if u switch motherboard u MUST reinstall winxp. I did a search that with this agreement the winxp key is matched with the motherboard. so for him to buy a new motherboard which was $200 and since he cant use his backup disks of xp he would have to buy winxp$200. (if u can find it now). everything is vista. he bought a new machine from dell and paid about $800 but he is getting a very good system i built on the site for him. he got the machine in 4 days from ordered. That was pretty darn fast. Anyways he is learning vista cause i have no clue about it. I still have xp home.