My computer crashed a few months ago and upon inspection, the motherboard is finito. I use the computer for my Pro-Tools digital recording software. I found a matching motherboard on E-bay, however, I'm no computer wiz.
Is there a way I can transfer the hard drives from the crapped out computer to another hard drive using the existing connections?
2007-02-21 16:00:24 · 3 answers · asked by icd1765 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
yes, however the motherboard must be the same.
and you might have you use the HD you have now as a slave drive.
but it much easier than you think to do it, without any problems.
if you have a friend or call a professional it won't take more than 30 minutes to an hour.
2007-02-21 16:09:54 · answer #1 · answered by briank1458 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just take the old drive and run it on the new motherboard. If you are buying a new mainboard with the same sockets for the processor and ram you can take all the stuff off of the old one and run it on the new one. Make sure you follow the boards instructions to set up the new mainboard to funtion with your processor. The cabling and everything will work fine, the only other issue you will have is setting up the bios on the new board to recognize your hard disk if it is such that it won't do it automatically.
2007-02-21 16:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by devast725 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
install crashed hd into good computer as a slave drive then using the settings and transfer wizard loc in all programs help tools to do thias if the good computer accepts the hd as a slave then it will work if not u have problems
2007-02-21 16:07:30 · answer #3 · answered by starchild1701 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋