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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 13, 2017 17:57:37 GMT -5
So my laptop died about two weeks ago. Probably sooner than it should have, but it was relatively old and was starting to have too many problems to justify not replacing anyway. So I immediately bought a new one. I popped out the old hard drive and tried hooking it up to the new one (both with and without an encasement) and I'm not able to pull anything off of it. I keep getting an error message that the disc has to be formatted before it can be used, and obviously I don't want to do that because it would completely defeat the purpose for saving it. I've been pretty good about saving and backing things up, and what I haven't I can easily re-create, so there's really nothing there I absolutely need, but there is some stuff I'd prefer having to not having so I'd like to exhaust a few more options before white flagging. Any thoughts?
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 13, 2017 19:09:46 GMT -5
You might be able to buy an adapter to let you connect the old drive as a USB drive, while using the HD (and OS) in the new computer to run it. Your drive would be the D drive to the new computer's C drive. I have done this before with a desktop computer's drive. I have an old drive in an adapter case and power supply I bought, and it can connect using USB and will be read as an external drive.
I don't know if this is also available for a laptop drive, however.
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Post by nowimnothing on Jul 14, 2017 4:19:46 GMT -5
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 14, 2017 5:55:57 GMT -5
I think the problem with your approach is that the new laptop hardware may be too different to boot from the old hard drive. You could try booting from an SD card and then reading the drive contents, but the adapter is probably easier. I thought the same thing, so I tried to transfer the files by trying to connect to someone else's laptop that was similar to the old one (not exactly the same, but close enough in model and year) and ran into the same problem. |
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Post by nowimnothing on Jul 14, 2017 17:46:48 GMT -5
I think the problem with your approach is that the new laptop hardware may be too different to boot from the old hard drive. You could try booting from an SD card and then reading the drive contents, but the adapter is probably easier. I thought the same thing, so I tried to transfer the files by trying to connect to someone else's laptop that was similar to the old one (not exactly the same, but close enough in model and year) and ran into the same problem. I don't think it takes much difference, a different model motherboard or CPU even if they are the same architecture may not boot. If you have an old external hard drive enclosure lying around, that could work too. |
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