Comments on: How can I connect a laptop hard drive to a desktop computer so I can recover, transfer files?

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:45:51 +0000

OK, i have a laptop hard drive and i need to transfer the pics to my desktop but my desktop hard drive isn’t big enough for the entire hard drive contents. I just need the pictures and I cannot get the desktop to read the laptop hard drive. I connected it using a SATA usb cable.

By: Confusdad

Confusdad — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:39:17 +0000

I recently bought a case for my laptop hard drive. I can connect it to my new laptop via USB. Every folder that I try to open says I do not have permission. I have many many pictures and audio files on the old hard drive. I tried to become the new owner for the folders and it still says I do not have permission. Help

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:05:46 +0000

Gavin,

my question is, even tho ca access the c and d drie via a pc can i also access fles that are on the laptop screen page./desktop.
therse files on there and also all favourites of interent webpages etc. is it posible to access those?

Yes, you can.
If you had Vista/Windows 7 installed, you’ll find those files in Users on the C: drive.
If you had Windows XP installed, go to Documents and Settings on C: drive.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:00:22 +0000

Helpful psot my laptops donig same shit wont come bk on corrupted or missing registry files.. even tho i took it into a shop already n had it partitioned the problem is till there n thers over 250gb of shit i have to get to.
The shop can do this again but idf it keeps donig same thing i need a brand new hardrive and would cost me £114 as its so big 320gb hd altogether., but my question is, even tho ca access the c and d drie via a pc can i also access fles that are on the laptop screen page./desktop.
therse files on there and also all favourites of interent webpages etc. is it posible to access those?
need to know asap

Gavin

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By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:09:41 +0000

jts123,

Am i right to assume that if i buy an external hard drive bay(caddy) and install the old drive into it, then connect the caddy via usb to another pc I can read the old drive?

You are right. It’s called external USB enclosure for notebook hard drives.

Also, when putting the old hard drivd into the new caddy, will I need to set any jumpers to ‘slave’ configuration or will it just work as is?

Nope, there are no jumpers.

If you cannot access files and get “Access denied” error message, you’ll have to take ownership over the main user folder.

Take a look at this tutorial explaining how to take ownership: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/recover-files-from-broken-laptop/

By: jts123

jts123 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:23:37 +0000

The mainboard of my vaio laptop recently failed. As the cost of replacement and instalation ect is just not cost effective I still need to be able to recover data/files from the old hard drive.

Am i right to assume that if i buy an external hard drive bay(caddy) and install the old drive into it, then connect the caddy via usb to another pc I can read the old drive?

Also, when putting the old hard drivd into the new caddy, will I need to set any jumpers to ‘slave’ configuration or will it just work as is?

cheers.

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