Hello,
Here I am with my most recent question (sigh). Seems like I spend more time here in the forum than anywhere else... but everyone here has been unbelievably helpful with everything else, I'm hoping this will be the same way.
A while back, my PC crashed, and I had to retrieve what stuff I could from the Poser 5 runtime folder on my then rapidly-dying hard drive. I stored what content I could on CD's, and then bought a larger, roomier hard drive. When I installed it and upgraded my PC, I decided to upgrade to Poser 6 as well.
I stored just about everything else from Poser 5 and then dropped it into my new Poser 6 runtime, but somewhere along the line, I misplaced some of the characters from Poser 5, that I always liked using. I don't have the standard Poser 5 characters of Don (P5 man), Judy (P5 woman), Will (P5 boy) or Penny (P5 girl). I don't have the .cr2 files, the .obj files (geometries), or the textures for them. I don't know if I accidentally deleted them in the move to my new hard drive or not.
So what I'm wondering is, is there a way that anyone knows of the pull them off the original Poser 5 disk that I have? When I place the Poser 5 disk in my CD  drive it wants to automatically install Poser 5, which would probably overwrite my current Poser 6 installation and screw things up even more. There is one icon that shows up in the Poser 5 installation window that says "browse disk" but all it does is let me look at the aut installer, some documentation, etc. I'd like to be able to access the actual files mentioned above, and just copy them off the disk and place them in my current runtime.... but from what i can tell, it won't let me do it. Does anyone know of a way to access just certain files on the disk?

Thanks as always for any info -

Steve

Poser 5 will install to a different folder than Poser 6  so unless you have left the old runtime as an external you should be ok.

it should be c:program filescurious labsPoser 5 etc . Remember you have to load the service pack to run Poser 5 or it asks to register online.

As far as I know, re-installing P5 will not overwrite your current P6 installation.  It will install into its own folder.  It has been true with all version after P6 and it is still true with P8.  If there is no absolute way to retrieve the P5 content off your disk, I would recommend a temporary reinstallation, copying it's runtime content to a new folder, then delete P5 afterwards.  Link the copied P5 content to your P6 as an external runtime. 

Ah... I see what you're saying. That never dawned on me that it would view Poser 5 and 6 as two different things. So I could load Poser 5, transfer just what I need to my Poser 6 runtime, then delete 5. Looks like a small project after I get home from work tomorrow evening.
Thanks!

During the setup there´s an option to only install the Poser 5 Runtime. So no need to install Poser 5 at all.