I'm hoping somebody can help me. I searched, but I couldn't find any similar topics. Over the last year I slowly copied my collection of 600 cds onto my laptop. Two weeks ago I spilled water on the laptop by accident and the motherboard was damaged. I bought a new computer that is the same model (Dell Inspiron 2650) and transferred the hard drive to it. The hard drive works fine, but unfortunately none of the songs can be played now. They were all saved as wma files and they all seem to have been copy protected when they were transferred from the CDs. Is there any hope at all of getting the songs stored on the hard drive to work on this computer? It is the exact same hard drive that was in the other computer. I still have the other computer, but there seems no hope of getting that one to work again. The computer has Windows XP Home Ed SP1 and Windows Media Player 8.00.00.4477. I fear that I'll be copying everything again, but I thought I would ask for help before wasting my time doing that. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, even if its just to tell me there is nothing that can be done. Thanks in advance.
I've never had to do it, but check this link. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0048.mspx#1184 Also, check in at the Doom9 Audio forum. http://forum.doom9.org/
