[Shop-talk] moving computer files

[John P. New]

Hi John,

The easiest way to do this is to take off the outside of the computer's case and connect the old hard drive directly to the new motherboard with a SATA cable and an available power lead. It doesn't matter if there isn't room inside the computer for another hard drive because this will only be a temporary connection.

If you aren't comfortable doing this, then really the only way is with a hard drive enclosure, complete with its own power supply and USB port, into which you put your hard drive (which is just as much work as the above method with the downside of having to buy the enclosure).

If you want more specifics, contact me off-list and I can give you more direction.

John

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:56:11 AM EDT john niolon wrote:
> shop content... I use my computer to buy tools.
> 
> had a few power surges / losses the other night and my desktop motherboard died in the process.  I’m looking at a refurbished dell unit with a solid state drive as a replacement.  I haven’t had to copy a full hard drive since you used a parallel cable and some software who’s name escapes me.   What’s the best way to do this from a HDD to a SSD nowadays ??
> lt’s a small format machine and I don’t know if I can put my old hard drive in it to slave it for the copying.
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> Its also a windows 10 machine and my old machine was windows 7...  will win10 run all the software my 7 machine did ??  I’m getting so computer illiterate !!!
> 
> john
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