Can one restore file categories and descriptions?

[punkmaister]

Last Christmas 2 days before New Year's Eve my trusty good O'l Celeron based tower took a big poop and went on to compute on the sky and 2 weeks ago my Aunt gave me a brand new Toshiba Pentium Dual Core 4GB RAM 500 GB Hard Drive Laptop, Now the hard drives on the old machine are salvageable so I am in the process of buying a universal adapter/enclosure so I can retrieve my data from those drives and still use them as backup afterward.

Anyhow on to the question which is is there a way to restore the file categories and descriptions that I had on my old PC to the laptop? If so given the fact that I had 2 hard Drives on the old computer Drives C & D with E being the DVD/CD player etc. Can I modify the location of the files if they can be recovered to their new locations on the new 500GB Hard drive of my Laptop?

[punkmaister]

OK I'm posting this new thread since it seems no one understood what I meant in the previous one again I want to recover and/or restore the files Metadata from my old Celeron Tower Hard Drives to my brand new Laptop again can it be done and if so how? Can the Metadata be fixed to point to the file's new location on the Laptop's drive and so on?


Any help would be appreciated....

[raspopov]

You can use old Library.dat for new files under one strict condition - file paths must be exactly same. To achieve this you can use Windows command "subst" to create "fake" disks, or use NTFS hard-links (I recommend "Link Shell Extension") to mimic any path, or use Windows "Disk Management" to mount new disk as folder to old one.

[punkmaister]

So the short answer to my question is yes it can be done but paths cannot be changed to reflect the new locations thank you, that's all I wanted to know. For the looks of it whatever I choose i got a lot of work ahead of me,once I can recover those files once and for all.