recovering database from good HDD/Bad motherboard

[judd]

Act! Pro Version 17.2.217.0

I had this installed on a laptop and the laptop is failing, bad motherboard. I cant get it to stay running long enough to open Act and create a "move" file. I am sure its a motherboard and not HDD as it has 7 beeps which is a bad processor/board for this Dell model. We did have it running in Safe mode for a day but I was at work and the wife didnt know how to properly copy the database.

If I can get it to run in safe mode will that work?

I have a USB to SATA cable so I can easily access the HHD from my new PC. Is there anyway to point the new install to a folder on the old drive and recover it?

Is it possible to launch ACt from the old HDD and run it to properly copy and move the database? I already installed Act on the new PC.

[wellmet · Accepted solution]

You will need to install Act! on the new system but you can copy the database off the old hard drive to the new hard drive.  You will find a file named dbname.adf and another named dbname.alf and another named dbname.pad.  In the same folder you will find a folder named dbname-Database Files.  Copy alll of those except dbname.pad to the new system.  Then tell Act! to open the file dbname.adf.

Stan

[wellmet · Accepted solution]

You will need to install Act! on the new system but you can copy the database off the old hard drive to the new hard drive.  You will find a file named dbname.adf and another named dbname.alf and another named dbname.pad.  In the same folder you will find a folder named dbname-Database Files.  Copy alll of those except dbname.pad to the new system.  Then tell Act! to open the file dbname.adf.

Stan

[judd]

a little late.. Thanks for the help

When I try to copy them over, I get this error

I get this when trying to copy the database folder as well. Specifically when it gets to the dashboards and templates. I tried copying the individual files but that didnt work.

H is my laptop drive I have connected to the desktop. The HDD should be fine, as the issue was a bad motherboard on the laptop...

[dshaw111]

Hi Judd,

Have you stopped SQL.  Then try to copy again.

[judd]

The copying issue turned out to be some sort of windows issue as it was happening with other non-ACT files. Rebooted the PC, moved the files, and we get to the log in screen

But we can not open it since there seems to be a password.... Actually I knew that, that's why we couldn't move it the traditional way. Now we have to deal with that....