DELL Laptop/Harddrive Power Compatibility

[Crazy Horse]

Greetings.

To move data from my old harddrive to my new one, I want to put my old
harddrive inside a (borrowed) DELL Inspiron 8600, and copy files from my
old drive to my new one, residing in my Inspiron 1000.* From the 8600,
I've removed its Toshiba harddrive that has a power specification of
5V/0.7A. My old harddrive (a Hitachi, which I want to put inside the
8600) has a power spec of 5V/1.0A.

So the question is this: will doing this cause any harm to either the
Inspiron 8600 (which came with a 5V/0.7A HDD) or to the 5V/1.0A Hitachi
HDD that came with my Inspiron 1000?

Any help you can provide will be much appreciated.

BTW, I've contacted a tech-service guy at CompUSA and he told me there
should be no problem, but I thought I'd run this by some newsgroup
folks, just to be on the safe side.

Thanks.
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* I'll do this via a temporary LAN connection.

** And BTW, I'm going through this procedure to try to recover data from
my old drive and get it onto my new one. The old drive's bootable
partition became UNbootable... So I'm in the process of rebuilding the
software on my new drive. It's a drag... and I know there must be a
better approach (to be used in the future)... but that's another topic
for another post... perhaps to another newsgroup.

 

[Rod Speed]

To move data from my old harddrive to my new one, I want to put
my old harddrive inside a (borrowed) DELL Inspiron 8600, and copy
files from my old drive to my new one, residing in my Inspiron 1000.*
From the 8600, I've removed its Toshiba harddrive that has a power
specification of 5V/0.7A. My old harddrive (a Hitachi, which I want
to put inside the 8600) has a power spec of 5V/1.0A.

So the question is this: will doing this cause any harm to either the
Inspiron 8600 (which came with a 5V/0.7A HDD) or to the 5V/1.0A
Hitachi HDD that came with my Inspiron 1000?

Should be fine, the power demand generally goes up
a bit with larger drives. It may well be the same as
the biggest drive that was available for that laptop.

The power supply wont be that marginal.

Any help you can provide will be much appreciated.

BTW, I've contacted a tech-service guy at CompUSA
and he told me there should be no problem,

He's right.

but I thought I'd run this by some newsgroup
folks, just to be on the safe side.

* I'll do this via a temporary LAN connection.

** And BTW, I'm going through this procedure to try to recover data
from my old drive and get it onto my new one. The old drive's bootable
partition became UNbootable... So I'm in the process of rebuilding the
software on my new drive. It's a drag... and I know there must be a
better approach (to be used in the future)... but that's another topic
for another post... perhaps to another newsgroup.

This newsgroup is fine for that. The best approach to use in the future
is to image the drive and just restore from the image if that is required.

 

[bxf]

Greetings.

To move data from my old harddrive to my new one, I want to put my old
harddrive inside a (borrowed) DELL Inspiron 8600, and copy files from my
old drive to my new one, residing in my Inspiron 1000.* From the 8600,
I've removed its Toshiba harddrive that has a power specification of
5V/0.7A. My old harddrive (a Hitachi, which I want to put inside the
8600) has a power spec of 5V/1.0A.

So the question is this: will doing this cause any harm to either the
Inspiron 8600 (which came with a 5V/0.7A HDD) or to the 5V/1.0A Hitachi
HDD that came with my Inspiron 1000?

I realize the question pertains to voltage compatibility, etc. and not
about connections. Still, I can't help but wonder if I'm understanding
your intentions. So, for my benefit, if nothing else:

You are going to take your old drive (originally from your Inspiron
1000) and put it into a borrowed 8600. And then what? You are going to
boot the 8600? That is not likely to work very well, if at all,
ESPECIALLY since you say your old drive has become unbootable. I think
I must be missing something here. And then what, connect the 8600 to
the 1000?

Unless I'm really failing to understand your plan, I would think it is
simpler to put the old drive in an external case and connect it to the
machine you want to copy the files to (the 1000). Simple.

 

[Rod Speed]

I realize the question pertains to voltage compatibility, etc. and not
about connections. Still, I can't help but wonder if I'm understanding
your intentions. So, for my benefit, if nothing else:

You are going to take your old drive (originally from your Inspiron
1000) and put it into a borrowed 8600. And then what? You are going to
boot the 8600? That is not likely to work very well, if at all,
ESPECIALLY since you say your old drive has become unbootable. I think
I must be missing something here. And then what, connect the 8600 to
the 1000?

Unless I'm really failing to understand your plan, I would think it is
simpler to put the old drive in an external case and connect it to the
machine you want to copy the files to (the 1000). Simple.

It is a viable approach if you use a bootable CD with
Bart PE or knoppix etc on it to just get access to the
non bootable drive to copy files from the original drive.

 

[bxf]

It is a viable approach if you use a bootable CD with
Bart PE or knoppix etc on it to just get access to the
non bootable drive to copy files from the original drive.

And do any of these enable you to connect the 8600 (old disk, source of
COPY) to the 1000 (new disk, target of COPY)?

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

And do any of these enable you to connect the 8600 (old disk,
source of COPY) to the 1000 (new disk, target of COPY)?

You can certainly copy data between them, thats what he wasnt to do.

 

[bxf]

You can certainly copy data between them, thats what he wasnt to do.

Just for my benefit, how does one do that? I can imagine networking
them, for example, but can this be done if you can't boot Windows
(unless PE is enogh for this purpose, I suppose)? I'd expect it must be
something simpler than that though, but I don't know what it is.

 

[Jeremy Boden]

Just for my benefit, how does one do that? I can imagine networking
them, for example, but can this be done if you can't boot Windows
(unless PE is enogh for this purpose, I suppose)? I'd expect it must be
something simpler than that though, but I don't know what it is.

Any Linux distribution can read a variety of file systems (including all
those accessible to Windows). With the exception (?) of NTFS it can also
write to them.

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

Just for my benefit, how does one do that?

Any of the usual ways you can between any networked PCs.

Obviously the detail is different with knoppix than Bart PE etc.

I can imagine networking them, for example,

Yes, that is clearly what he wants to do.

but can this be done if you can't boot Windows
(unless PE is enogh for this purpose, I suppose)?

Yes, that is the whole point of PE, it gives you all the
functionality you need to do that when booted from CD.

So does knoppix, its a full linux booted from CD.

I'd expect it must be something simpler than
that though, but I don't know what it is.

Nope, that's what it is, a full modern OS, booted from CD.
The use of a full modern OS makes network ops effortless.

You can do it from DOS, but that is
much more awkward with networking.

 

[bxf]

Any Linux distribution can read a variety of file systems (including all
those accessible to Windows). With the exception (?) of NTFS it can also
write to them.

Thanks for the info, Jeremy. Never used Linux - yet, and never had a
need to do any home networking, either, which is why I'm asking these
basic qustions.

 

[bxf]

Any of the usual ways you can between any networked PCs.

Obviously the detail is different with knoppix than Bart PE etc.


Yes, that is clearly what he wants to do.


Yes, that is the whole point of PE, it gives you all the
functionality you need to do that when booted from CD.

Good to know. May come in handy at some future time.

So does knoppix, its a full linux booted from CD.


Nope, that's what it is, a full modern OS, booted from CD.
The use of a full modern OS makes network ops effortless.

You can do it from DOS, but that is
much more awkward with networking.

I still say sticking the disk in a $10 USB box is easier...

 

[Rod Speed]

Good to know. May come in handy at some future time.


I still say sticking the disk in a $10 USB box is easier...

Not when you already have the two laptops.