[Shop-talk] moving computer files

[Ronnie Day]

First, of course, your data files are the most important things and unless
some got corrupted which is rare, they should be ok. You may be able to
physically install the HD in your new box, depending on space, or you can
put it in an external case, probably using USB3, which a new computer
should have. You can get kits to allow connecting bare (internal) drives
without a case. This (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NV2SPATA/)
is a very useful gadget. Or you can get a drop-in drive dock for about the
same money.

I recently added a new, third SSD to a Win 7 desktop that I built several
years ago. I installed Win 10 on the new drive and reinstalled all of my
applications on it from scratch, leaving the original W7 boot SSD and data
HDs in place. It's all worked fine. While there are applications that
supposedly let you clone everything, I'm not sure that would work going
from W7 to W10, and in my experience you usually need the application
licence keys to get them to work, if they don't require an application
update to run on W10.

The first thing I'd do is do the setup on the new computer, then connect
your old HD to it and backup your data files, if they're not backed up
already. There should be plenty of info online, especially YouTube, on
doing what you need to do. Check out tom's Hardware (website) and Paul's
Hardware (YouTube).

HTH,
RD

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:57 AM john niolon <jniolon at att.net> 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.
>
> 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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