Yes you can then access all the files although it will be unlikely that you can run the applications stored on the hard disk. You will have to re-install all your applications on the new machine.
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Yes you can then access all the files although it will be unlikely that you can run the applications stored on the hard disk. You will have to re-install all your applications on the new machine.
That'll do the job
Think H is just concerned with getting all his data off it. Looks like that bit of kit will be fine.. As above your apps ie Office 2k7 and others wont work. But once transferred to pc you can save them to disc or usb stick and transfer them to a new laptop if u buy one.
i only started using the laptop recently as we had 'user rights' restrictions put on the work laptop, so had to remove i-tunes.
so all my tracks are stored on that laptop. they're the only things i'm really concerned about. i've got backup discs somewhere but not very recent ones.
but if i can't run i-tunes to create new backup discs and then transfer to the PC then i'm not sure how else to do it.
Are you using iTunes with an iPod? The reason I ask is that you can get some software for around £9-10.00GBP which will recover all the files from the iPod itself and dump them all in a folder on whatever machine the iPod is connected to??? (this is also dependent on the fact that you have all your music on the iPod - I lost 100GB of music last year after a hard disk failure but my iPod is only 40GB so I got back less than half when I recovered the files from my iPod).Originally Posted by Harry
Last edited by martind511; 2nd March 2008 at 10:02. Reason: bad grammer
no tunes stored on an ipod, never needed the music anywhere other than around the house so just wired it up to the home system when i wanted a listen, and on the odd occasion burnt a CD.
so the hard drive is the only place i can get the tunes from.
cheers for the suggestion though.
No worries - back to plan A - get the USB Hard drive adapter and copy your music files across to another computer.
will do - cheers.
What you could do, as suggested, is plug the harddrive straight into a new laptop. Yes it will complain about different drivers etc, but it should sort itself out enough to get up and running (you could always boot in safe mode which uses less drivers). Then, once booted up and running, burn all your data onto CD or DVD's. Once your have done this and are happy that all of your data is off and that you can view the data ok on the CD's, then I'd reformat the disk and put a clean installation on there.
What I'm suggesting is just a one off exercise to log in to your old drive, get the data off, then wipe the disk and start fresh.
This will save you buying an adaptor.
Let us know what route you want to take Harry... And if u get stuck give us a shout
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