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    Help with Laptop hard drive

    Discussion in 'HP' started by superbad71, Apr 20, 2009.

  1. superbad71

    superbad71 Newbie

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    Hi all, I hope this is in the right place. My friend has a 2006 hp pavilion running xp. I have a 2007 hp pavilion running vista(32 bit). They look completely identical. Her motherboard took a dump, but the hard drive is good, and she needs to get the data off of it. Can i take out my hard drive from my laptop and install hers to get the docs and data off of it? Is it the same connection? size? Any help, recommendations, alternatives would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
     
    superbad71, Apr 20, 2009
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  2. Hirohata

    Hirohata GBF Danchou

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    It would be easier just placing it in an enclosure and grabbing the data that way. Just be sure it has the correct connection port.
     
    Hirohata, Apr 20, 2009
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    icehell Notebook Evangelist

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    you can run portable windows from USB flash or DVD.....then back up your data to usb hard drive or dvd.
    you can use paragon,acronis....many software to copy whole drive to another...

    plenty solutions..........
     
    icehell, Apr 20, 2009
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