Hi. My laptop broke and I took the hard drive out of it to save the vital information that was on there. I bought a new laptop but now realize I have to wipe my old hard drive to use it in the new one.
Do I have to wipe it or is there a way I can transfer that data to another location first? Thanks.
2007-02-16 08:05:06 · 5 answers · asked by Mama R 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Get a USB Enclosure for your old laptop's hard drive. Just plug it in, and it appears on your new system as a removable drive.
Rosewill RX250-U Aluminum 2.5" USB 2.0 External Enclosure with One Touch Backup function $7.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182033
KINGWIN KH-200U-S Aluminum 2.5" USB 2.0 External Enclosure $11.59
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817121005
Good luck and Happy Computing!
2007-02-16 08:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. There is no need to wipe your hard drive you can place the hard drive into another computer (in the slave mode (look at the drive it will have a switch or a jumper to enable this mode)) and use it as an alternate data source from the information. Be slightly careful to select a like data storage system (ie - Apple use Mac; Window use NTFS or FAT 32). Once it is installed as a slave, you may leave the data where it is or write it to either disc storage, a jump drive or a DVD depending on what is available on your new computer.
2007-02-16 08:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by Cliff G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now if the old laptop's harddrive crashed, there has to be a reason for it, was it defective, did it crashed because of liquid damage? driver conflict etc.. If it crashed because of mechanical issues then we know it wont work if you swapped the harddrive into the newer model and chances are the new model wont wont with the old harddrive anyways because the drivers or hardware running on the units wont be the same unless you decided to buy the same exact computer, that would be weird.
Moving along, to extract the files on the drive, go to a retail store, buy an external harddrive enclosure, put the old harddrive in the enclosure and now you have an external USB drive. Plug it into your laptop and it would come up like a regular external driver. Browse through it and extract whatever files you neede.
There you go. Have fun:)
2007-02-16 08:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by pdtpatrick 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it's the exact same model of laptop, you can just put the drive in and it will work the same as before. If not, you can hook it up through a USB adapter and grab whatever info you need off of it.
2007-02-16 08:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you have a desktop buy one of theses http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10344935&loc=421
then transfter the data over to the desktop then burn what you want on a dvdr or a cdr
2007-02-16 08:11:05 · answer #5 · answered by D@ve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋