Need help wit hdd

[tiktaktoiron]

I'm trying to backup my sisters HDD out of here laptop. I tried to boot it on my PC but after like 5 mins of use it just freezes and I can't do anything, oh and I can't use the laptop to do it because it broken the charger and battery are dead

[Naeaes]

Boot your own OS and use this HDD as secondary. That way you can keep all the necessary drivers and don't utilize the wrong ones from your sister's OS. You need to enter disk management and assign a drive letter for the secondary HDD and then it'll be available in File Explorer just like any other HDD. Just drag and drop the data onto your HDD or a USB stick or somehting. 

[Captain_WD]

On 13.11.2016 г. at 2:29 PM, tiktaktoiron said:

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Hi there Welcome to the community! 

 

What is the drive's brand and model? How are you connecting it to the desktop PC? 

Booting from a drive which had its OS installed on another system isn't a good idea as the OS was configured to run on specific hardware and may crash or not boot at all on different hardware.

 

As @Naeaes suggested, you could run the drive as secondary storage drive on another computer (internally or externally) and access the data there. Mind that if the drive has any problems (you mentioned that the laptop is broken) any further usage or testing could damage it even more. 

 

Captain_WD.