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    can I move HD from T30 to R32 with current OS?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by sophony, May 16, 2008.

  1. sophony

    sophony Notebook Enthusiast

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    My LCD screen on my T30 is just simply gone away. However, I need data that saved on the T30 harddrive. Right now I can't find any external monitor, but I have my R32 as back-up laptop.

    Can i just take out the harddisk from T30 and put it in the R32 and boot window as normal? I'm not sure about hardware compatabity that was saved on window XP.

    Anyone has any suggestions?

    PS. Please excuse my poor english.
     
    sophony, May 16, 2008
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  2. laptop4life

    laptop4life Notebook Consultant

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    A couple of options one if your screen doesnt work but ur laptop plug a conncection betwen your two laptops and share the harddrives and transfer it or take it out and see if it will go into ur other laptop.
     
    laptop4life, May 16, 2008
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  3. sophony

    sophony Notebook Enthusiast

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    Finally,

    I took out the harddisk from T30 and insert it in the R32.

    It took a while to detect all drivers, but it worked well afterward. So, Now I am working T30 Window on R32 :)
     
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    ssnseawolf Notebook Consultant

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    Your hard drive worked with XP installed? I'm blown away if that was the case.

    Windows will usually blue screen under such circumstances because it thinks you're attempting to pirate the OS.
     
    ssnseawolf, May 16, 2008
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    The best thing to do in future cases is to put the hard drive in and then use a live os to recover data. I put my lappy hard drive in another laptop, boot off of the ubuntu live disc and then recover the data over the network, or email my documents to myself, etc.
     
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    Personally I prefer to run my hard drives with two partitions. One for the system, and one for the rest of it. I also made next to unattended CD's for the OS (using nLite) and then if I ever really needed to transfer the HDD I could just do so and format the system partition.

    An external hard drive (or DVD burner) and a live cd would probably work too
     
    Surfer666, May 16, 2008
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  7. sophony

    sophony Notebook Enthusiast

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    Maybe because it is the same brand?

    I'm not quiet sure either how I can run the T30 harddisk (with XP installed) on R32 and use XP and other programs very smoothly.

    Maybe if I took T30 HD to put on HP or Compaq, it might not work as good as on R32.
     
    sophony, May 17, 2008
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