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Altinn
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Hello LMG community, 

 

I have an old netbook here that is dead, can I take its HDD and plug it into my PC and recover the data on it. or use it at all inside the pc I am using?

Just asking because I have some old stuff on there that I wouldnt want to lose.

 

Thanks anyway.

 

 

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Yes and yes.

 

You can just plug it into your new computer and grab the information off of it and if you want to use it in your new computer, then you will just have to format the drive.

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yes just plug it in like a regular hard drive

you may need an adapter from ide to sata if it's super old an you don't have ide on your mobo

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Ok thank you for the answer sounds good than would it be viable to keep that drive in my pc i know thevspeed wont be as good but it is a 500 gb hdd it would be nice to add that to my storage

 

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31 minutes ago, Altinn said:

Ok thank you for the answer sounds good than would it be viable to keep that drive in my pc i know thevspeed wont be as good but it is a 500 gb hdd it would be nice to add that to my storage

 

If you need the storage, then go for it. 

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You can use it, but I would only recover the data and keep the drive somewhere else, these hard drives are usually ridiculously slow.

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