Folks,

First of all, when I visit here, I get the fact that I know next to nothing about computers and ancillary hardware/software. So, I won't be surprised if you tell me I'm in the wrong forum.

Anyway here's my problem, I had a Dell Dimension 8300 computer running Windows XP Home edition whose hard drive crapped out on my about four months ago. Like an idiot, I had not backed my stuff up. But, a Make It Work tech said he could retrieve all my stuff save programs onto an external hard drive. I bought a FreeAgent external hard drive and downloaded all my stuff.

But here's the problem, my new computer is a 64-bit and the old one was a 32-bit. When I tried to download the stuff from FreeAgent, I got a prompt saying I couldn't put the stuff on new computer because of the aforementioned problem.

My question is, is there any way to turn 32-bit into 64-bit info. If so, how can I do it. A google search gave me the impression that it can't be done. I just wanted to double-check to see if that is true, and if isn't, get help from you folks to help me solve my problem.

Thanks,

funkyuncle