Hi
My desktop died, but I'm pretty sure the HD is OK.
From what I've read, it should be possible to get a docking station to take the old HD so that I can use it as an external disk on my shiny new laptop. The old HD is PATA, the laptop SATA.
The desktop ran on XP, the laptop is windows 7, but if I'm not booting from the old one does it matter?
Ideally, what I'd like to do is get a device which
1 powers the old HD
2 links to the lap top via USB to let me get at some of the files I hadn't backed up
Does such a device exist and how easy is it to set up?
Thanks
Ian
My desktop died, but I'm pretty sure the HD is OK.
From what I've read, it should be possible to get a docking station to take the old HD so that I can use it as an external disk on my shiny new laptop. The old HD is PATA, the laptop SATA.
The desktop ran on XP, the laptop is windows 7, but if I'm not booting from the old one does it matter?
Ideally, what I'd like to do is get a device which
1 powers the old HD
2 links to the lap top via USB to let me get at some of the files I hadn't backed up
Does such a device exist and how easy is it to set up?
Thanks
Ian