And will I be able to get rid of vista? Judy, You can do it by running a version of XP inside a virtual machine on your Windows 8 computer. Depends on the files. Assuming you have the same programs that open those files on Windows 8 it should just work. My old dell comp crashed. We brought a new Gateway, and dropped it.
The screen is now jacked up, but not cracked. Can I take the hard drive out of the new on and put it I to the old Dell computer? Or would that not work? I am not sure how much it will cost for a new screen,or is there anything I can do to maybe restore the screen?
Like I mentioned, it is not cracked, just jacked up. Getting a new screen for a laptop can be pricey. It will need to be professionally done, so head on down to your local computer store and get a quote for that. How can I remove the hard drive before donating? Unfortunately I have already disconnected all my cables. Unless you need to use the drive for yourself, you can do a secure erase of it using DBAN. How should I erase my hard drive before I give it away?
Depends on the computer, but there should be a way to get at those screws somehow. A different approach, before you removed the cables unfortunately, would have been to run DBan to erase the hard drive, and then just leave it in there. Thank you. I recently bought a windows 8.
I have unchecked the box in properties but it still says it is read only format , any ideas on how i can open them to modify? One workaround is to save the file with a different name. Purchased a new computer and decided to remove the HD from the previous computer and connect it as a secondary drive on the new computer to speed the transfer of a GB of data. When I went to reinstall the HD as the primary on the original machine it does not appear to be recognized by the machine, only a black screen.
Did something happen to the HD when I connected it to the new machine that now thinks its a secondary drive? Hey Leo, I just wanted to say thank you very much for your detailed information on hard drives. I was able to recognize the type of drive I had and connect it successfully to an enclosure.
Thank you very much! I have tried putting my old laptops hard drive in it which has a copy of windows 7 on but nothing happens. Leo, I took the hard drive out and put in another computer, but when I try to copy files it says I do not have permission please contact the administrator. I have a new computer with Windows 7 Pro. Before doing this I tried installing the virtual XP. Virtual would not run the scanner I was trying to operate.. My Windows 7 comes with an upgrade to Windows If I do this, would I still be able to access my installed XP the same way?
Would you do this? My old p3 pc is win… xp not working,so the data in the hard drive to be transferred to my laptop win…8 ,how to transfer the data ,is any cable available to do so or any other method to do……….. You can simply delete the files on it. I have just bought a new windows 10 computer and discovered that my printer and scanner which worked perfectly on my old Vista computer cannot be upgraded to work on wind 10 because no suitable drives are available.
Can I simply insert my old Vista drive into my new computer as say drive D, and be able to use my printer as usual? Probably not.
Your old Vista drive would have a hard time booting up because it would find that the hardware on the new computer is different. You could configure a dual boot system so as to run Windows 10 sometimes and Windows Vista other times, and be able to print when running Vista.
I have read through all the interesting questions and answers on the topic of re-using hard drives from old computers, but no one has mentioned my particular situation.
I have three old hard drives, and fitted them into exclosures without any problems, two are made by Octigen and one Icebox types, I have no problems accessing files. I have some old hardware, a scanner and a plotter, and drivers are not available for the Windows 7 OS, that I am sticking with. If possible, I would like to be able to use the drivers that are installed on the old drives, without having to boot up to them. Is this possible? Can you clarify? As far as I understand it, you want to copy the drivers from the XP drives and have them work on your Windows 7 installation?
If so, that would not be possible for a couple of reasons. Is this possible. The quality of the scanner is excellent but it is not compatible with my new windows 8. I purchased an easy transfer cable but it does not work. Is there a product that is simple to use and effective for this transfer such as a transfer cable or external hard drive available? I had a Mustek scanner in the early s. When I got a computer with Vista, I had to get a new scanner. It might be more pragmatic and significantly less time consuming to just get a new scanner.
Had Mustek scanners myself years ago. My laptop hinges broke so, I bought a new Dell laptop. Both have Windows I removed the hard drive from the old unit and installed it into an external drive enclosure.
I would like to install everything on the old hard drive onto my new PC. Your situation is what is discussed in the article. If the drives in both machines are the same physical size, you should be able to put the drive from the older machine into the newer one and see if it works.
This is a great article! As a technician, I have been doing this procedure for over 30 years for various customers. Today, I shred the link to this page for someone far away, who wants the easiest and quickest way to move her files from an old drive to a new computer. Fortunately, we were able to take the cable from the old system — but it was quite a shock looking all over for that cable and not finding it.
New portable external hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays. However, I would consider converting an internal hard drive to an external hard drive if the internal drive, which came from an old computer that utilized only the slow 2.
Which hardware enclosure, interface, cable, etc. Yes, 2. From my experience, all are plug and play. The computer being connected to must also support USB 3. Technically obvious, but also easy to overlook. Can I move a program from one computer to another? Hi Leo, It seems that an easier solution would be this: Assuming that you have an image backup using Macrium Reflect on an external HD — you can then access any file or folder on that external HD.
Just simply copy all of the folders from the external hard drive to your new PC. That seems to be a much easier solution. Is there anything wrong with this solution? Mike W. That would work if you have a backup. I prefer to extract the hard disk and put it in an enclosure — not only the latest files, as Mark points out, but I now have a handy external drive.
I have a slightly different situation. My brand new Windows 10 computer came with a GB ss hard drive. How would I be able to accomplish this? You may need to adjust partitions after to take full advantage of the space. Back up first, of course. Then using a partition tool of some sort shrink the existing partition, create a new partition of GB, restore the SSD image to it, and then see if you can get it to boot from that partition.
I run a lot of software from PortableApps, including browsers, utilities, music and graphics software, etc. When I replaced my Windows 7 computer with a Windows 10 computer, I just copied the installation folders for all my portable apps over to the new machine and the programs were ready to go, with all my settings, bookmarks, history, etc preserved.
Which is fantastic — for those that know about portable apps, and for whom portable apps work by that I mean the software they want to use is available in that form. I have a new PC with Windows My old PC had Windows 7. I put the old Hard Drive with Windows 7 in an external unit. When I access the old hard drive, much of the information such as emails, documents, downloads, etc.
Is there anything that can be done to be able to use the old hard drive in an external unit and make sense of what is in the emails, etc. Thanks so much for your time and help. I really appreciate it. Have a good day. OR using a similar program to import those files like a new email program to import the old email. Exactly what and how depends on a very long list of specifics and varies depending on your situation. All I need are some photos and videos off the external drive.
Once I get Windows 10 to play nice and recognize the external drive via SATA connection, would I be able to access these files to copy? This results in the document being printed having the bar-code skewed, or even disappearing completely.
This problem is caused by your printer not having a postscript driver available. Postscript is a printing language used by a wide range of printer manufacturers. It was developed by Adobe to be able to print and display pictures and text on your documents.
In this article, we will explore the best way to solve this issue, and get back to printing barcodes easily on your documents.
If you need to create barcodes on your PC, here are 7 of the best tools to use. Sometimes an inferior inverter can cause the problem of the display. You may change the inverter to see if the problem can be fixed. If you have some important files that need to access or use right now, you can use the easiest way below to quickly access your laptop data and copy them to a USB drive or external hard drive.
Free Download. Launch it. Next you can select a partition of your computer and click Scan button. Alternatively, you can click Devices tab and select the whole hard disk of your computer to scan. After this software finishes scanning the chosen drive, you can check the scan result. Find and check your needed files, photos, videos or any other data, and click Save button to store them to a safe place like a previously connected USB flash drive, external hard drive.
In this way, it can avoid data loss. The Windows 10 boot failure or startup problems could be the result of an installed poor application, driver issue, virus infection or some other hardware problems. This will only load the Windows 10 system with the most essential drivers and services. You can turn off and on your Windows 10 laptop three times, remember to interrupt the boot process each time it tries to boot, namely, immediately turn off the computer when you see the Windows logo appears on the screen.
And this will take you to the Automatic Repair screen. If the Internet is down completely, ensure your modem and router are on and functioning normally. This may require resetting both devices to restart the connection. If you're using wireless Internet, check the signal strength. Poor signal strength will prevent your computer from connecting to the company network. If you connect to the Web through a proxy server, the proxy server itself may be down and preventing the download.
Try connecting to the Web with the proxy server disabled if possible. Incorrectly set up firewalls can also cause issues.
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