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Basically, my girlfriends family computer decided it was going to pack in. So I lent them my laptop with a wiped hard drive. I don't know whats wrong with the computer but from what I was told it went boom.. so power supply? But anyway I was wondering if I could plug my laptop hard drive into the computer (It is compatible) and copy all of the files from their hard drive onto mine? Is this possible?

 

I've heard a lot of times this is not, but by idiots that think there's an f13 key..

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Basically, my girlfriends family computer decided it was going to pack in. So I lent them my laptop with a wiped hard drive. I don't know whats wrong with the computer but from what I was told it went boom.. so power supply? But anyway I was wondering if I could plug my laptop hard drive into the computer (It is compatible) and copy all of the files from their hard drive onto mine? Is this possible?

 

I've heard a lot of times this is not, but by idiots that think there's an f13 key..

Connect power to the drive and a sata cable, just like any other drive. It is entirely possible. 

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Thanks for the reply, but that's on a Mac ;)

You didn't say it has to be windows:P

And for the question, you could just put in a cheap PSU and try to start up the PC.

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Connect power to the drive and a sata cable, just like any other drive. It is entirely possible. 

AFAIK you can't just put any HDD in your computer and boot from it, there are the completly wrong drivers on it, you probably just get an BSOD, but it is always worth a try.

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AFAIK you can't just put any HDD in your computer and boot from it, there are the completly wrong drivers on it, you probably just get an BSOD, but it is always worth a try.

 

yEs but you can just plug it in and access files on it.

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AFAIK you can't just put any HDD in your computer and boot from it, there are the completly wrong drivers on it, you probably just get an BSOD, but it is always worth a try.

No just add it as another drive, not as a boot drive, you can have two hard drives in the same computer. 

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AFAIK you can't just put any HDD in your computer and boot from it, there are the completly wrong drivers on it, you probably just get an BSOD, but it is always worth a try.

 

You don't need to boot from it. You can connect it as a secondary drive and copy the data.

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yEs but you can just plug it in and access files on it.

 

No just add it as another drive, not as a boot drive, you can have two hard drives in the same computer. 

 

 

yEs but you can just plug it in and access files on it.

 Well if you have the HDD anyway, you could just try it, but i would say it is not that easy.

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Well if you have the HDD anyway, you could just try it, but i would say it is not that easy.

What's not easy? Plugging in the drive and accessing it from the OS? That's easy.

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What's not easy? Plugging in the drive and accessing it from the OS? That's easy.

 

Yeah sorry, I completely misread the question..xD

Just ignore all my previous posts. :)

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If you can get their machine running with another hdd installed then its possible to copy everything into new drive. But it doesn't fix psu problem. If osu or any other component is fried, pc wont even start. You can plug their drive into other machine with another drive and do copying that way. With laptop it really isn't possible though. For that you should get 3.5" enclosure and use it to connect drive via usb.

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I've managed to plug both of the drives into my PC, but Im having issues on copying the files over... It doesnt seem to work? It gets to almost the end with 60 seconds left and just freezes. Any programs out there that can clone drives?

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