Portable Hardrive computer scan?
Question by D-Beau: Portable Hardrive computer scan?
My older laptop’s screen no longer comes on. The computer still does, but I’m not able to see anything. I bought a new computer, but I want everything on my laptop. I was wondering if there’s anyway (without getting it fixed) I could plug in my passport harddrive and scan all files on to it. That would be great. Thanks. And if not, is there any other possible way I could get all my files from that computer onto my new one? Any special usb device that could transers all my files onto the new one?
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Answer by Aaron
Yes there is. If the hard drive is still good, then you can buy a hard drive enclosure.
Put the laptop hard drive in it and then use the old hard drive as an external hard drive using a usb port. You can get these thing for like up to 25 dollars for a basic one with no special features.
But you will need to know how to take out the laptop hard drive. Most laptops use a 2.5″ hard drive with a sata connection, however older laptops uses a pata (aka EIDE) connection. So I would check out what connection the old laptop use for the hard drive.
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So long as the old hard drive is still working there are several ways you can do this.
You can use a usb/usb connection – see
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248 then http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=usb+transfer+cable
You can use a crossover ethernet cable and use the file transfer wizard – http://forums.techguy.org/networking/199558-solved-transfer-files-using-ethernet.html
Personally, I’d simply remove the old drive and use an IDE / SATA to USB adapter on the new computer. Te new computer will simply see the hard drive as an external drive – http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=ide+sata+usb+adapter