Transferring data from hard drive to something else.

hello all

If there anything i can use/get that will allow me to transfer the data on my hard drive from broken pc on to a laptop or another hard drive with my pc working?

so you have a harddrive out of a knackered PC and you want to get the stuff onto a laptop?

buy a usb convertor or something if you don't have another PC to put the drive into. you just need to know if the hard drive is SATA or IDE.

Originally Posted by TheMunster

so you have a harddrive out of a knackered PC and you want to get the stuff onto a laptop?

buy a usb convertor or something if you don't have another PC to put the drive into. you just need to know if the hard drive is SATA or IDE.

Yes to the first one.

how do i know if its a sata or ide.

Look at the connectors;

IDE Hard Drive: Attachment 495

SATA Hard Drive: Attachment 496

Also, if it's a SATA drive it'll be connected by two small, thin-ish cables. If it's IDE, it'll be connected by a small cable and a big, chunky one.

Your hard drive is almost guaranteed to be SATA, unless your computer is very old.

Its a SATA hard drive, so what type of usb convertor should i be looking at.

Something like this thrash - http://www.amazon.co.uk/IOMAX-SATA-A.../dp/B001A5SK56. It does both IDE and SATA and comes with power adapters.

I've got a couple of similar things at work, reasonably cheap and bloody usefull to have.

cheers mate