Update old laptop

Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.

Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.

Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.

Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
formant the hard drive and start over.

OR:

buy a new hard drive and install one of my 2 Win 7 licenses on it.

Thanks

On 9/30/2016 8:12 AM, pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.

Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.

Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.

Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
formant the hard drive and start over.

OR:

buy a new hard drive and install one of my 2 Win 7 licenses on it.

Thanks



Most laptops have a way to restore them to their original software
installation. You could run the MS easy transfer wizard to save your
data on an external drive, then restore the computer, re-install
programs, then use the transfer wizard to restore your data.

Doing a full image backup of the drive on the old laptop to an external
drive before working on it could be good insurance. All your data would
be on that.

External CD drives are easily found at thrift shops or yard sales.
Finding the matching power supply at thrift shops is not as easy but you
could get lucky.

You could try to network the 2 laptops together, and share the CD drive
on the older one so the newer one can see it.

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:12:50 -0500, pheasant16
wrote:

Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.

Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
formant the hard drive and start over.

Laptops are so proprietary, I'd concentrate on your available means
for a transfer bus. Obviously, that's going to be the P/SATA ports
(unless you've also USB3). An updated or another HDD is one option, as
you're considering. DVD choices will be either an internal unit,
given an existing design factor for one, or pretty much an external
unit.

Speeds will range best from the HDD ports, to anywhere down into
painfully slow elsewhere. Costs can also range to an exceeding end of
stupidity, depending how far from available hardware resources already
given or a complexity to modifications beyond;- newer laptop machine
prices, if running into a brick wall, are a bonus and can be
comparatively reasonable.

It's somewhat still at balances to the added price for mobility, more
so for tighter building constraints to that containment, and, as is
typical, an technical ability, if to sometimes discount dumb luck,
when assessing enduser needs to supersede implementation by what can
be had off Chinese and Singapore docks;- Merchandise deals often can
be more refined to favor such an ability, (sometimes an article may
only carry the engineer's technical block schematic), than might
cultural language barriers readily suggest.

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:12:50 -0500, pheasant16 wrote:

| Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
| everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
| laptop.
|
| Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
| or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.
|
| Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
| buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.
|
| Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
| transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
| formant the hard drive and start over.
|
| OR:
|
| buy a new hard drive and install one of my 2 Win 7 licenses on it.
|
| Thanks

I had a similar problem with an old laptop. Solved it by pulling the HDD out,
buying a USB enclosure with a suitable connector for no more than about $10, and
copying files from the old laptop HDD to the new laptop. It was the old laptop
itself that had slowed down, not so much the HDD.

Larc

pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.

Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.

Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.

Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
formant the hard drive and start over.

OR:

buy a new hard drive and install one of my 2 Win 7 licenses on it.

Thanks

I actually do recommend having an external optical
drive. As part of your equipment collection.
Just make sure it's a good one, one where the
tray is easy to use, and that the drive is
modern enough to handle a reasonable set of
medias.

The computer I'm typing on, doesn't have an optical
drive loaded into the 5.25" bay. Instead, I have my
USB based external optical drive, and plug it in
when needed. Works fine. My optical drive
is a full-sized one, with gravity tray and no
hub to fight with.

And that optical drive, can be connected to any
of my collection of prehistoric computers, the
ones with the optical drives that are too weak
to read burned media (they only read pressed
discs, where the amount of laser needed is less).

I also have a USB based floppy drive. And a
USB based ZIP drive. So I have read capability
for several kinds of media if needed.

Paul

On 9/30/2016 10:12 AM, pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.

Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.

Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.

Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
formant the hard drive and start over.

OR:

buy a new hard drive and install one of my 2 Win 7 licenses on it.

Thanks


What I did with an old Lenovo laptop was to pull the hard drive and plug
it into one of those cheap USB/SATA adapter boxes.

Then I plugged in a new SSD drive and reinstalled the OS. You need to
look up the existing drive size, as in how thick in milometers and match
that thickness for the new SSD drive. After that I transferred my data
files onto the SSD drive.

In your case, after transferring what you want to keep from your old
drive I'd format the old drive and use it as the transfer media from a
PC with CD/DVD and load Rosetta Stone from the (now) USB hard drive.

After you get everything working again the way you want I'd use the USB
drive as a full system image backup.

On 9/30/2016 10:16 AM, Bob F wrote:
On 9/30/2016 8:12 AM, pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.

Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.

Need a CD/DVD drive, which the new laptop doesn't have. Don't want to
buy an external CD drive. So need to recondition the old laptop.

Which would be a better way to go; buy a couple large jump drives and
transfer files I want to it,(think that would be painfully slow), then
formant the hard drive and start over.

OR:

buy a new hard drive and install one of my 2 Win 7 licenses on it.

Thanks



Most laptops have a way to restore them to their original software
installation. You could run the MS easy transfer wizard to save your
data on an external drive, then restore the computer, re-install
programs, then use the transfer wizard to restore your data.

Doing a full image backup of the drive on the old laptop to an external
drive before working on it could be good insurance. All your data would
be on that.

External CD drives are easily found at thrift shops or yard sales.
Finding the matching power supply at thrift shops is not as easy but you
could get lucky.

You could try to network the 2 laptops together, and share the CD drive
on the older one so the newer one can see it.


Perhaps you can copy the CD to a USB drive, and then load the program
from that.

pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.


Thanks all.

Lots of ideas I hadn't considered, and better than mine!

Just networking the two and pulling what I want to the new one solves
the big issue. (Canceled Carbonite)

After that, deciding to replace hdd or buy an external cd drive will be
easier to do knowing the stuff from the old is safely on the new laptop.

Christmas is coming, and find lots of goodies at thrift stores(for me!!)
not that cheap, so adding a cd drive to list is easy.

On 10/1/2016 5:57 AM, pheasant16 wrote:
pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to
new laptop.


Thanks all.

Lots of ideas I hadn't considered, and better than mine!

Just networking the two and pulling what I want to the new one solves
the big issue. (Canceled Carbonite)

After that, deciding to replace hdd or buy an external cd drive will be
easier to do knowing the stuff from the old is safely on the new laptop.

Christmas is coming, and find lots of goodies at thrift stores(for me!!)
not that cheap, so adding a cd drive to list is easy.

A drive around during recycling day or a visit to the local dump, if
yours allows people to visit, could result in a free capture of a DVD to
say nothing of what else might be inside the chassis of the box captured
for parts. That or like you say a visit to one of the thrift stores of
whatever brand.

On 30/09/16 23:12, pheasant16 wrote:
Has become very slow over the past 8 years or so. Tried to back
everything up with Carbonite. Didn't work to transfer everything to new
laptop.

Decided to learn a second language this winter, and it came on disks, CD
or DVD not sure, as package hasn't been opened yet. Rosetta Stone.

1. Could you reinstall Windows 7 on that old laptop?
2. Could your old laptop take a USB external DVD drive?
3. Does Rosetta Stone have a downloadable setup program?

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