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Selkie Music can help you control how you move your precious music files from one laptop or PC to another Laptop or PC. Whether you are upgrading to a new computer and need to migrate your music from your old machine to the new one, or your old computer will no longer even boot up and you need to rescue precious music files Selkie Music can help.
Selkie Music turns the old or non-working computer into a File Server with full network support. It allows you to transfer music right over your existing network or you can directly connect the two computers together. What gives Selkie Musicsuch a huge advantage over other disk recovery tools is that it doesn't rely on the Windows OS on the old/broken computer. It completely bypasses Windows, so that you don't have to rely on the Windows to be operational at all.
A huge advantage is that Selkie Music requires no pre-installation of any kind. You just put the bootable CD into the CD-Rom drive of the broken computer and begin. Windows does not have to function in any way, shape or form in order for Selkie Music to work.
Additionally, Selkie Music works for both migration and rescuing music off of a non-working computer. So if Windows is running slow - or not running at all - there is nothing to worry about. Selkie Music bypasses Windows altogether. It runs off of a Live CD so that Windows doesn't even have to operate.
Another advantage is that Selkie Music will work either through a direct connect (via a cross-over cable) or through your home network. It is your choice. You just select the computer that you want the data placed on and go.
This leads to yet another advantage: you have complete control over what Selkie rescues. You can choose specific music or transfer everything. This flexibility means that you can quickly access the most important music on a computer even if the hard drive is dying. If time is not an issue, the only limit to the amount of data you can recover is the size of the new computer's drive.
No. Selkie Musicdoesn't even install onto the old or broken computer at all, so it leaves no trace behind. Selkie Music is a "Live CD," so it operates from the CD rather than installing itself onto the hard drive of the old or broken computer.
Because with music devices holding more and more music files on them, the loss of your precious music can be horrible .Having Selkie Music on-hand will ensure that the data is safe even if Windows no longer works.
No, Selkie Music is not a forensic recovery program. Selkie's focus is dealing with the much more common problem of the Blue Screen of Death and helping you get around that to grab intact data. If the computer is truly dead - it will no longer power up or the hard drive is physically damaged - Selkie Music will not be able to help you.
Yes, Selkie Music can work right over your wired network just as easily as it can work by directly connecting the computers via a cross-over cable.
Two computers and either a wired network or a cross-over cable is first on the list. Then, you will also need access to a working CD burner so that you can create the Selkie Music disk that will go in the broken computer, or you can contact us about acquiring copies of the software already burned onto CDs for your use. That's it!
No. Norton Ghost is limited and only lets you create images of workstation systems to make restoration easier. To create initial images, you need to have Ghost running within a working Microsoft Windows operating system - you cannot create a backup image if Windows has failed. Selkie Music is designed to run even on systems where Windows has become corrupted because it does not depend on Windows in any way.
LapLink's PC Mover requires installation on both the old and new computers, while Selkie Music only requires installation on the new computer that will be receiving the music. Additionally PC Mover requires that Windows works and is in good condition - which is not often the case with an older computer that needs its migration moved. PC Mover will not work at all if Windows doesn't work. Selkie Music will work - even if Windows doesn't!
Selkie Music works with Windows 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista - it will move files from any one of these Operating Systems to another. Because Selkie Music operates on a Live CD it doesn't even require that the copy of Windows works at all.
Selkie Music moves only the music you want moved over. You can move them all over or just a few. It is just as simple to move one file as it is to move all of them over.
Although Selkie can in some instances recover from mirrored set-ups, RAID is not currently supported by Selkie Music.
Yes, as long as you have a floppy-disk drive and Selkie Classic, you can still use Selkie by running our Floppy Boot-disk. You will find a utility called FloppyCreator.exe on the Selkie CD in E:\help\bootdisk. It is also available here. You can use this utility to create a boot floppy. Just select "floppy.img" when the program asks for a disk image and insert a floppy into your drive. The floppy can handle the initial boot and then go looking for the Selkie CD.
Yes, the computer you are using Selkie to recover music from must be connected to a wireless router with a wired ethernet connection; however, the working computer can run wireless and will be able to transfer the music without any issue.
Selkie will only detect the Ipod as a storage device on certain models of Ipods. We currently cannot support the newest generations (Iphone, Ipod touch, and newest Ipod Classic) which run requiring PTP support. However, older generations acted as a usb mass storage device, and Selkie Rescue should be able to detect it as a drive and pull the data from it.
