my old dell has tax returns on it but im not sure how to retrive them without hoooking it all back together- on the back is 2 usb ports- is there some way to transfer the data?
2007-01-02 14:49:32 · 3 answers · asked by gregg s 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
don't take the old drive out and put it into another computer or you will lose everything... the two computer are different setups. and will have different drivers and it may crash the windows that is on it..
better to just boot the old system up and retrieve the data you want
2007-01-02 17:08:33 · answer #1 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can pull the hard drive from the old computer, and install it into your current computer, as long as it has an IDE controller. A lot of the newer computers are SATA, so you'll have to double check the make/model of the computer. Also, check Device Manager in windows.
Or you could buy an external hard drive case, and install the hard drive into the case, now you have a portable hard drive.
By the time you do all that, connecting the computer and transfer everything off to a USB stick, then you are done. Now that you've got the computer up and running, now is the time to transfer anything else, and wipe the Hard drive.
2007-01-03 02:44:42 · answer #2 · answered by Sam M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, you are going to have to hook the computer up and transfer them off, theres no way to get data off of a computer that isn't plugged in. unless you open it up and take out the hard drive and plug it into your other computer..
2007-01-02 23:23:06 · answer #3 · answered by PiTHON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋