Hello RickandRana, Monday, February 14, 2011, 3:15:02 PM, you wrote: R> When we transferred our records from Maxtor to Windows7, 64 bit, the R> end result is horrendous. Our neatly labeled, alphabetically organized R> folders are now a mass of files randomly stored: No folders, nothing R> in alphabetical order. There are 1534 files scattered around in never R> before seen fashion. Don't know what you used to transfer but this is definitely not usual, folders are generally copied intact and in their original order. The best way to do this sort of thing IMHO is to use a USB caddy to fit the old Hard Drive in and plug into the new computer then use Windows Explorer to copy files from the external drive to the PC. This is even easier if two Windows Explorer windows are opened as it's just a case of drag-and-drop from one to the other :-) -- Best regards, Barry mailto:[email protected] MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid' 64bit

Barry writes: The best way to do this sort of thing IMHO is to use a USB caddy to > fit the old Hard Drive in and plug into the new computer then use > Windows Explorer to copy files from the external drive to the PC. This > is even easier if two Windows Explorer windows are opened as it's just > a case of drag-and-drop from one to the other :-) Barry, thank you. Can this be done as you have described at this late date? I have put a great deal of into into our FTM program and have continued to seek and find (with great difficulty) and update our research. I am not sure I feel capable of erasing all and starting over using yur method. What do you think? Do we go to the store and purchase a "USB CADDY"? Many thanks. Rick Powell > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >