Following a (very) unfortunate mishap, I have a Sony Vaio laptop which has been trashed by cracking the screen. The vaio was fitted with an 80Gb Toshiba HDD, so I got myself a SATA to IDE adapter and reckoned I would be able to install it as the primary drive in a desktop thus being able to access the stuff in 'My Documents'.
Unfortunately (!*) when the PC boots, it starts OK but then indicates that Windows needs to be registered. When I try to do so, it says it is already registered! Is this a case of a 'bodged Sony OEM' version of Windows Home Media - which refuses to run on non-Sony hardware?
Any ideas how I would be able to read the contents of 'My Documents'? I can clearly use the disk as a slave in the desktop, but as far as I am aware there is no way that this will let me get access to files in the 'My Documents' area.
Any help (very) gratefully received.
Regards
Mach1
Unfortunately (!*) when the PC boots, it starts OK but then indicates that Windows needs to be registered. When I try to do so, it says it is already registered! Is this a case of a 'bodged Sony OEM' version of Windows Home Media - which refuses to run on non-Sony hardware?
Any ideas how I would be able to read the contents of 'My Documents'? I can clearly use the disk as a slave in the desktop, but as far as I am aware there is no way that this will let me get access to files in the 'My Documents' area.
Any help (very) gratefully received.
Regards
Mach1