Laptop Technical Help Please

[Mendoza]

I purchased a new laptop at the weekend as the motherboard went on my old one.

The hard drive on my old laptop has thousands of photos from my life time and music on my Itunes.

Is there a way I can get the files off my laptop and on to my new one??


Thanks

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Does the old one still WORK?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

If the old one still works (no idea what a motherboard is) then you would be well advised to invest in a little memory stick. I have one that is 2GB, which seems to hold rather a large amount of data/photos etc. etc.

Or if the motherboard is crucial, you may have to get an expert to recover the data.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

You can currently buy a 4gb usb stick in Aldi for the ridiculous price of £7.

 

[Skint Gull]

My Nephew (12 months old) twatted my parents laptop a few years bag and the motherboard was physically damaged beyond repair. We could have sent it off and they may have been able to get the pics off but it would've been the best part of a grand.

If it's not been physically damaged you should be able to get a computer expert to sort it for not too much, don't know any but if you pick up the yellow pages and call a few people i'm sure you'll find one quick enough.

I can assure you that whether you get them back or not, you will back them up to CD from now on much more frequently!

 

[Mendoza]

The laptop itself doenst work or turn on, but the hard drive is in perfect working order.

I just need to be able to take the hard drive out, and then need some kind of gadget/cable that lets me drag and drop from the old hard drive onto the new one which is twice the capacity of the old one

 

[Titanic]

The laptop itself doenst work or turn on, but the hard drive is in perfect working order.

I just need to be able to take the hard drive out, and then need some kind of gadget/cable that lets me drag and drop from the old hard drive onto the new one which is twice the capacity of the old one

You can get (and I have) an external housing for a laptop drive with a USB connector... and as you say, you simply take the harddrive out of the laptop, put in in the housing and Robert is your father's brother.

 

[Titanic]

http://www.shop.bt.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=48P3

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=44932&doy=15m9&C=SO&U=strat15

etc... just make sure you get one that supports the type of drive you have in your old laptop.

 

['sladegull]

if the hard is definately still intact , then take it into 'DR Tech' in old shoreham road and they can get all your data off onto disk for £15-20. They have way of connecting it as a slave drive to another PC....

 

[Garage_Doors]

You can currently buy a 4gb usb stick in Aldi for the ridiculous price of £7.

that souund good where is Aldi ?
only know Lidal at the end of eastern road

 

[Bozza]

You can get (and I have) an external housing for a laptop drive with a USB connector... and as you say, you simply take the harddrive out of the laptop, put in in the housing and Robert is your father's brother.

That's the way I'd go.

And then use the old drive as a back-up for your new drive, in case you suffer a drive failure at any point.

 

[Mendoza]

Many thanks, looks like I will go with Titanics idea of a hard drive caddy

Then I guess I will leave it running over night to transfer my photos and music