I recently got a new PC because my useless EMachine died, no video, mo mouse, no keybaord and drive problems as well. It is to the point where I cannot even transefer the data with discs because I cannot do anything, the mobo is gone. I was told by the guy at the store that I could just insert the old HD into the sparre slot on my new PC and it would show up as a new drive, and from there I could just transfer the data in windows. Is it really that simple? Is there something tricket withg the jumpers? I looked inside the new machine (HP a1410n) and it looks like the HD is connected different. Im am not a computer wiz but I am a Mech Engineer so I would like to think that I can as least comprehend and follow directions, if someone would be so kind as to explain how to do this. Thank you.
It depends if both your old drive and new drive are both ide. As long as the new drive is not scsi, or serial ata. you should be able to select the new drive as master and the old drive as slave. Then if everything gels together you should be able to move all of your important files to the new hard drive. After you are certain that you have copied all the files you need, "this is my opinion," I would then format the old hard drive to get rid of any junk, trash, stuff that could confict with the new computer in any way. Then you will have an extra drive to save data to, and back your system up to, to avoid problems in the future. If the new hard drive is scsi, or serial ata, don't fret, just might have to go into more detail. CD.
You can always get an external USB enclosure for the old drive. When you are done tranferring data (as long as the drive is still healthy) you can use it for external data storage or backup. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Ntk=all&N=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 ^^^Link to a list of enclosures. You need one for a 3.5" IDE HDD. Good luck ~Rich
For the $25 or $30 that the USB enclosure would cost you, I would still say that this is the easiest way. (Its always easy spending other peoples money) But, if you dont want to spend the money, take a look at your mobo specs. Some mobos have SATA and IDE on them If so, you are in luck. Just plug it in to the IDE controller (jumpers removed from the drive) and boot windows. You should see your drive in My Computer. (again, if it is still healthy). ~Rich
Here's the specs for his hp mother board. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...duct&product=1841799&dlc=en&docname=c00647121 Looks like you do have an ide slot open. Just pull a hard drive cable from the old computer, plug it into the new comp ide slot, plug it into the old harddrive, plug in a power supply to the old hard drive, then turn it on. It should id the drive and you will see it in my computer as a new drive letter. Don't copy anything that has to do with the old os. Don't want to make your new puter sick. If it doesn't work, a 25.00 usb box would be worth the effort. If I made a misstatement guys correct me. I'm still reading on sata.
I connected to the IDE slot, and one of the power connections, fired it up but it gave me an error that windows did not start right? I did not remove the jumper, should I?
Yes, you need to set the jumper on the old drive as slave and the sata if it has one as the master if it isn't already. If that doesn't work we might have to go into the bios and tell it which is which. But I don't think we'll have to do that. EDIT> Sata doesn't have jumpers. But if the old drive is set to slave it should be ok.
I set the old drive to slave, used the old ide cable to connect it to the board, and connected the power to it. WHen I went to fire it up, windows would not start. "Windows did not start succesfully, recent hardware of software change might have caused this." then I gives me options to srart up: Start normally last known good configuration safe mode safe mode with networking safe mode with command prompt I tried them all but it brought me right back to the same screen. What am I doing wrong? I connected the blue end of the cable into the board and the other into the drive, I cold hear the drive start up so its definatly getting power, what am I missing? this is the error report after my computer recovered from a "serious error" Error caused by a device driver Thank you for sending an error report to Microsoft. Error report summary Error type : Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information) Solution available? : No (see Next steps) What does this error mean? : Windows has encountered an error from which it cannot recover and needs to restart Cause : Unknown device driver Computer symptoms : A message appears on a blue screen with error code information (for example: e.g. 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) Additional steps for you to take : Important: Please continue to send error reports so analysts at Microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as quickly as possible Information about this error You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer. Next steps We have analyzed your error report and at this time are unable to determine the exact cause of the error. However, Microsoft will continue to analyze this error report to try to determine the specific cause of the error. If we are able to find the cause and correct it, and you encounter the same problem, you will receive an updated response that includes instructions for resolving the problem. Thanks
i didn't ave the time to read this whole thing, but if you have a router you can connect if you have another computer or a borrow a friends and put ur hard drive in it you can transfer files using it on a lan, pretty easy, just hook both pc's to the router and set up a workgroup, and put files into shared folder of computer where files are.
ok, I finally got it working. Now, I want to restore some files that were previously deleted on my old drive. How do I find them? The trash can on my desktop only holds the things deleted off the new drive.
Like you, I should be getting my HP a1410n computer in a week. I also intend to hook up my current hard drive in the new computer as a "slave" drive to transfer files from one to the other. It is something I've done before. Here is a link to a free program that, when started, will allow you to look at your new drive (C and your old drive (E side by side and easily move from one drive to the other. http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm Exactly what type of files are you thinking about moving? If they are photos, music file, document, etc this program will work fine. However, if you think you'll be able to move over an entire checking program or photo program or word processing program then all bets are off. Those type of programs install support files everywhere, including the registry, and a simple copy will probably not work. Jim
