Hey guys, my father's ancient windows xp computer is acting very strange. It'll boot up, but then freeze and just stay on the sand glass icon. There is important tax information and programs on the harddrive that needs to be recovered. I've attempted to put the harddrive into a vista machine to transfer the data (I can see the HDD in my computer, but only certain files will copy over to the new machine). I also tried booting the new computer from the old hdd, and it shows similar problems (unable to do anything once it boots up). Is there a way to get the data off the old hdd? My father is planning on bringing it in tomorrow to a local computer shop that will "put windows 7 on the old harddrive and transfer the data over." Any advice would be helpful, thanks.