Old laptop died, I took out the hard drive and am trying to find out where the address book in Printmaster is stored so I can access it on the new laptop

I don't think you lose data because battery is dead. Data is on your HD. Why don't you connect it to power supply and see if the old laptop is really working.

Firstly try another USB cable or power supply, then try it on another computer or laptop. If you still can't access it, then I'd say it has died.

Some part of the drive has "died".

If it still has a valid WARRANTY, exercise the warranty to get it repaired/replaced.

If the warranty has expired, then open the case, remove the disk-drive, buy a new "compatible" disk-drive, connect it, and thus "revive" your external storage device.

Try and map it, by right clicking on 'my computer' and select 'map network drive'. In the folder option type: \\**ip address**\public (where **ipa address** needs to be the ip address assigned by your router or one of the 2 default names: mybookworld or wdstorage. If you have previously changed to name of the NAS drive, use the name you assigned.

printmaster 1 was for windows 98, ver 17 is for XP. it depends where your saved projects are. if they are on CD media then that is READ ONLY and they must first be transferred to a C:\ drive and their ATTRIBUTES for each and every file/folder of the project need to have the Read Only attribute removed. you can do that via CMD.exe eg if your project was inside a folder called c:\myprojects\????? then you would type in ATTRIB/S c:\myprojects\*.* -R then your projects might be valid as they could be UPDATED/Altered by the new version but thats just a guess.

what program is using the address book? if it's outlook or outlook express just go up to the titlebar to filesin files there are 2 options import/export click thisjust do as the promt says and make sure you remember where the {NAME].csv file is being written on your drive. after that just copy the file to your thumb-drive and do the same process in reverse, using the import. OR<g> you could always just get frustrated and type it in manually(hope it's not to lengthy a list)

printmaster came with a driver for Vista but in the new ver. not for the old one...sorry

open adress book it have all your address and keychain access have all your password stored. rate it please

It's the format that doesn't allow windows to access the data. Only way to recover is to get another external drive and transfer the data to it. Then you could reformatt the old drive to work with XP. Hope this helps.