Death of old laptop, I must save the data, help.

With just a week or two left from the arrival of my new laptop, the old one, a Clevo x7200, reached its final moment of death. It had been giving me hardware problems for over a hear now and I know that I won't be able to further recover it from its current state.

The increasingly worrying symptoms that let to its current state were these:
- mini hang-ups while browsing
- random freezing that required rebooting
- suddenly switching off by itself without blue screen
- loss of audio playback functionality
- increasingly shorter times till auto switching off to the point that the computer switched off while loading the Windows files to enter safe mode while booting
- computer switched off while in Restoring Windows mode, which might have compromised things to a software level
- as of now the computer doesn't stay on for more than a second.

Right now, all I want to know is if I will have any problems connecting my SSD as a slave to the new laptop that is coming soon, a Clevo P771ZM.
My main concerns are:
- currently, my old laptop requires a password for log in. I remember in the past when connecting a hard drive, which also required a password to log in, to another computer, I wasn't able to access its files because of this. Am I going to have this problem?
- is there any other reason why I should not be able to connect my current SSD to the new laptop and recover its files?

I'm really worried. Hope you guys can guide me since all I have left right now is my phone and I can't do much googling from it to find answers. Thanks.

 

You may have problems getting into the user account's files, anything that isn't into "My Documents", etc. should be fair game.

 

I might be wrong but as far as I know the My Documents folder is not the folder that encloses all of my files, that's just one of the many folders like My Pictures, My Music, etc.

I'm thinking, if I was to boot my current SSD in the new laptop as a primary, wouldn't I be able to log in, disabled the log in authentication, then open it without problems as a slave again? It's the only thing I can think of.

 

It doesn't matter where you keep anything on the drive. It will all be perfectly accessible. In Windows, the only "problem" you will face is that the first time you open a user's main folder, a popup will ask you to click ok.

 

Really? Maybe it's different now, but I remember when I tried this many years ago (on Windows XP I think), I was not able to access the hard drive because it was password protected, but there was no way to actually enter the password. Are you sure now this is not the case anymore?

 

I know exactly what you are talking about, but it isn't like that anymore. They changed it so that you could put in a password, and then later they changed it again so that Windows will let you access the data without even having to put in a password.

 

That's fantastic news then!

 

In the worst case scenario, just use some Linux distro LiveCD like Slax and copy files from one drive to the other.