What i understood is that you are going to have a third hard disk that will have the new operating system and then use the other 2 hard disks as slaves, so about the data availability, most likely you'll be able to access the data normally and see them as extra drives on the operating system, but there's the case of the old operating system encrypting the files, i think in that case you'll need to do some messing to find it (windows has the option to encrypt an admin's documents and linux has the option to encrypt the /home folder i think)
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Rayne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to buy a new system, and I have 2 hard disks from my old > system. One is installed with a Linux OS, the other with Windows > Vista. > > Will I be able to simply use these 2 hard disks on the new system and > boot up, retaining all my data? If not, how do I transfer the data > from my old hard disks to my new hard disks? My old system is faulty > (no signal to monitor), so I can't just copy everything directly > using, say, a portable hard disk. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Rayne > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Computer Tech Support" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<computer-tech-support%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
