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So a friend of mine has installed windows 10 on his laptop but the installation failed somehow and the laptop is now in a loophole of rebooting which doesnt end.

I want to fix his laptop by putting windows 7 back on it (which he wants, cause he doesnt want this problem again lol) but he hasnt backed up his files.

So I was thinking of getting his hard drive out of his laptop and putting it in my pc as a secondary hdd to copy the files.

Does anybody know if this works? And also if the sata connections used in laptops are the same as on my pc (my pc is sata 3.0)

You should just be able to do that if you manage to get it plugged into SATA and power and it's not particularly obscure or anything.

 

Hopefully he won't have any encryption on the drive.

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So a friend of mine has installed windows 10 on his laptop but the installation failed somehow and the laptop is now in a loophole of rebooting which doesnt end.

I want to fix his laptop by putting windows 7 back on it (which he wants, cause he doesnt want this problem again lol) but he hasnt backed up his files.

So I was thinking of getting his hard drive out of his laptop and putting it in my pc as a secondary hdd to copy the files.

Does anybody know if this works? And also if the sata connections used in laptops are the same as on my pc (my pc is sata 3.0)

 

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So a friend of mine has installed windows 10 on his laptop but the installation failed somehow and the laptop is now in a loophole of rebooting which doesnt end.

I want to fix his laptop by putting windows 7 back on it (which he wants, cause he doesnt want this problem again lol) but he hasnt backed up his files.

So I was thinking of getting his hard drive out of his laptop and putting it in my pc as a secondary hdd to copy the files.

Does anybody know if this works? And also if the sata connections used in laptops are the same as on my pc (my pc is sata 3.0)

You should just be able to do that if you manage to get it plugged into SATA and power and it's not particularly obscure or anything.

 

Hopefully he won't have any encryption on the drive.

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It will work with your PC SATA ports. Don't worry.

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You should just be able to do that if you manage to get it plugged into SATA and power and it's not particularly obscure or anything.

 

Hopefully he won't have any encryption on the drive.

I dont think he has an encryption on his hdd

 

It will work with your PC SATA ports. Don't worry.

Allright, I hope so :)

 

It should work, but you could make it a lot easy'r in future if had a usb hdd dock station, saves lot of hassle having to plug in hdd in own computer

Plugging it in takes 1 minute. I ain't buying a docking station just for that xD

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