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Transferring data from old laptop to new. (Urgent! Thank you

by k1wee May 29, 2009 7:26PM PDT

Hello. My laptop motherboard recently fried and I would like to transfer some files from old laptop to a new one. Since I haven't partitioned my SATA HD with Vista OS, I was wondering if its possible to just take out the HD and use enclosure to use it as a secondary HD and connect it to USB to transfer files. As far as I know if the HD in question has OS installed new computer cannot detect the drive. Is there any way of doing it or is it just simply plug and copy. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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"if the HD in question has OS installed new computer cannot
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 29, 2009 10:03PM PDT

"if the HD in question has OS installed new computer cannot detect the drive."

On that point I disagree since that has never been the cause. I can see where (bad?) techs could use this as an excuse when they couldn't sort out the issues but 99.99% of the time you find that just slipping the drive in (with proper connections and settings which I can't fit into this small space) that it just works.

Or you use some USB adapter.
Bob

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THank you.
by k1wee May 30, 2009 3:00PM PDT

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Second HD
by civil May 30, 2009 2:09PM PDT

You will be okay by putting the HD into an external enclosure and plugging it into the USB plug of another laptop or desktop. It becames just plug and play. Vista and XP will just read it has an external hard drive and only looks at the Windows directory on the disk as a set of folders and not as an OS.

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Thank you
by k1wee May 30, 2009 2:59PM PDT

Thank you I will try it

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