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  • LEEDASH
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Dec 2012
    • 481
    • Bedfordshire
    #1

    Hard drive issue

    Firstly hello forum,need some help,have a old acer laptop totally knackered runs bad very laggy,the hard drive has files which I can access of another laptop via usb lead.
    Is there anyway you can view past net searches of another laptop,for example you logged in automatically to a site on the knackered laptop,can you view on another or is this not possible ?
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    • diif
      Badcaps Legend
      • Feb 2014
      • 6978
      • England
      #2
      Re: Hard drive issue

      Which browser and version did you use ?
      It's easy to copy the entire profile which includes browsing history and passwords with Firefox and Chrome.

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        • LEEDASH
          Badcaps Veteran
          • Dec 2012
          • 481
          • Bedfordshire
          #3
          Re: Hard drive issue

          Hard drive is out of a acer on windows vista and the browser was google chrome.
          I just want to view ie on the search on that hard drive from another pc/laptop

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            • diif
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              • Feb 2014
              • 6978
              • England
              #4
              Re: Hard drive issue

              If the browser was Chrome on the Acer the profile can be copied over, I did it on a PC a couple of weeks ago. I think it was ...\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data that I copied over.

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                • LEEDASH
                  Badcaps Veteran
                  • Dec 2012
                  • 481
                  • Bedfordshire
                  #5
                  Re: Hard drive issue

                  Where do you copy the file to ?

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                    • diif
                      Badcaps Legend
                      • Feb 2014
                      • 6978
                      • England
                      #6
                      Re: Hard drive issue

                      I copied it to the same place on a new install.

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                        • LEEDASH
                          Badcaps Veteran
                          • Dec 2012
                          • 481
                          • Bedfordshire
                          #7
                          Re: Hard drive issue

                          The hard drive has around 30 file folders each with mixture of just numbers and letters,no app data in either one ?

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                            • diif
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                              • Feb 2014
                              • 6978
                              • England
                              #8
                              Re: Hard drive issue

                              You will need your PC set to show hidden files and folders.

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