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From: Peter on 20 Feb 2006 18:45
We had a Dell notebook that stopped working due to water damage. The
hard drive is ok and we would like to hopefully put the data from the
hard drive onto a toshiba notebook. I'm assuming Dell/Microsoft tie
WinXP to there notebooks so wanted to know if there was a way to put
this data onto the Toshiba without having to reinstall all the
programs.

Thanks,
Pete

From: Rod Speed on 20 Feb 2006 19:22
Peter <petercritic(a)yahoo.com> wrote

> We had a Dell notebook that stopped working due to water damage.
> The hard drive is ok and we would like to hopefully put the data from
> the hard drive onto a toshiba notebook. I'm assuming Dell/Microsoft
> tie WinXP to there notebooks

Not really. It isnt trivial to do an install in place without an XP
distribution CD
tho and you will likely need to do that just because the chipset has
changed.

> so wanted to know if there was a way to put this data onto
> the Toshiba without having to reinstall all the programs.

Its a little fiddly to do with just a notebook, but it is possible.

One approach is to get a USB2 external case or adapter
and use that to allow the Dell hard drive to be seen on
the Toshiba and copy the data across in that config.


From: Arno Wagner on 21 Feb 2006 01:25
Previously Peter <petercritic(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> We had a Dell notebook that stopped working due to water damage. The
> hard drive is ok and we would like to hopefully put the data from the
> hard drive onto a toshiba notebook. I'm assuming Dell/Microsoft tie
> WinXP to there notebooks so wanted to know if there was a way to put
> this data onto the Toshiba without having to reinstall all the
> programs.

Connect the HDD as secondary IDE disk in a real computer (lets
face it: Notebooks are convenient, but they are a bit inflexible
on the hardware side...) instead. Then you can copy off the files.

Arno


From: Neil Maxwell on 21 Feb 2006 14:30
On 21 Feb 2006 06:25:53 GMT, Arno Wagner <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

>Previously Peter <petercritic(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> We had a Dell notebook that stopped working due to water damage. The
>> hard drive is ok and we would like to hopefully put the data from the
>> hard drive onto a toshiba notebook. I'm assuming Dell/Microsoft tie
>> WinXP to there notebooks so wanted to know if there was a way to put
>> this data onto the Toshiba without having to reinstall all the
>> programs.
>
>Connect the HDD as secondary IDE disk in a real computer (lets
>face it: Notebooks are convenient, but they are a bit inflexible
>on the hardware side...) instead. Then you can copy off the files.

Just putting the HD into a new laptop will almost always cause
trouble, depending on how different the laptops are. Generally, a
WinXP repair install will fix it and let it work, but there's some
risk that it will bollix up the whole thing.

If the data's particularly important to you, I'd definitely hook it to
a normal computer and either copy the data off or image it.


--
Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer
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