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Please help.. restoring data on OLD PCs HDD..

Discussion in 'HP' started by souskei, May 15, 2009.

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so i bought a new hdx16 a week ago because my other laptop (sony) passed on..
but i need the data on the hard drive from the sony..

the way the sony died is i spilled OJ on it and it fried it..
but i removed the had drive at it looked untouched..

so i tried just swaping my hdx16 hard drive and putting the sony in.. but when i boot up i get BSOD..

my sony hdd had vista 32 bit installed.. and the hdx16s hdd has vista 64 bit..

i dont know what to do.. maybe something with the bios?

i REALLY need the data on the sony hdd..

please any help would be greatly appriciated..
THANK YOU!

souskei, May 15, 2009

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namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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Purchase an external enclosure, USB or eSATA or Firewire.

Definitely 2.5" SATA.

Put the Sony's hard drive in the enclosure and plug it into the computer, and then you can get your files off of the drive like any other external drive.

If you really need the data now, try boot up in safe mode.

namaiki, May 15, 2009

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okay cool thanks... im gonna give the enclosure a try..

souskei, May 16, 2009

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