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transfer hdd to new computer
i have my hdd from my old computer whose motherboard is scrap now and
i bought a new laptop, i neeed to get my data from my old hdd onto my new laptop how do i go about doing this |
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i have my hdd from my old computer whose motherboard is scrap now and i bought a new laptop, i neeed to get my data from my old hdd onto my new laptop how do i go about doing this Buy a USB/Firewire external enclosure, put the HD in it, and connect it to your laptop. |
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wrote in message ... i have my hdd from my old computer whose motherboard is scrap now and i bought a new laptop, i neeed to get my data from my old hdd onto my new laptop how do i go about doing this The most expedient way, and reasonable, from my point of view, is to get yourself an empty external USB enclosure and put the hard drive in it from the scrapped machine. Connect it to your new laptop and copy. If you compute and are savy to the pitfalls of hardware and software alike I would think you would back up your data. When you're done copying you could use the enclosed drive to backup your new machine regularly. It's a sound investment and with a decent backup program such as Acronis True Image you won't regret it. If your current hard drive is too small for a backup drive then invest in a larger one and stick that into the external drive when you're through copying from the old drive. Jan Alter |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:36:57 GMT, Jan Alter wrote:
wrote in message ... i have my hdd from my old computer whose motherboard is scrap now and i bought a new laptop, i neeed to get my data from my old hdd onto my new laptop how do i go about doing this The most expedient way, and reasonable, from my point of view, is to get yourself an empty external USB enclosure and put the hard drive in it from the scrapped machine. Connect it to your new laptop and copy. If you compute and are savy to the pitfalls of hardware and software alike I would think you would back up your data. When you're done copying you could use the enclosed drive to backup your new machine regularly. It's a sound investment and with a decent backup program such as Acronis True Image you won't regret it. If your current hard drive is too small for a backup drive then invest in a larger one and stick that into the external drive when you're through copying from the old drive. Jan Alter If one of your HDs is Maxtor/Seagate, then you can get the software from Seagate's site. It's a cut-down version of Acronis and works well - and is free. I've just cloned my HD to a USB enclosure; 7 partitions (3 of them Linux) but only about 40GB (Acronis treats the whole drive as a 'tranfer' it seems, or it's formatting the destination) in about 40 minutes. Other makes might have the equivalent. -- Peter. You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion? It's not rocket science, you know. |
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On Nov 29, 9:53 pm, "John Weiss"
wrote: wrote... i have my hdd from my old computer whose motherboard is scrap now and i bought a new laptop, i neeed to get my data from my old hdd onto my new laptop how do i go about doing this Buy a USB/Firewire external enclosure, put the HD in it, and connect it to your laptop. I've tried doing that but when i try to get into my files from the connected hdd i'm getting error msgs that say acess denied |
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wrote in message ... On Nov 29, 9:53 pm, "John Weiss" wrote: wrote... i have my hdd from my old computer whose motherboard is scrap now and i bought a new laptop, i neeed to get my data from my old hdd onto my new laptop how do i go about doing this Buy a USB/Firewire external enclosure, put the HD in it, and connect it to your laptop. I've tried doing that but when i try to get into my files from the connected hdd i'm getting error msgs that say acess denied Can you supply some more details. What was the reason that the old computer became scrap? Was the old hard drive accesible at the time you stopped using the now defunct computer? What OS is this old hard drive using? Was the old hard drive formatted FAT or NTFS? Was there any kind of security protection being enabled on the old hard drive? What OS is the new computer system using? Are you certain that you have hooked the old hard drive correctly in the external enclosure? It should be a single master, and depending on the OS you are using you may need to load drivers for the enclosure to be seen by the new computer system. Was the connected external drive was assigned a letter? Is there anything else that you might think of that could be pertinent that folks ought to know to help here? -- Jan Alter or |
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