How to remove laptop hard drive and transfer data
How to recover your programs and files from a broken or dead computer (even if it wont turn on!) Show In this article, we will see how to retrieve your programs, profile, settings, documents, pictures, music, movies, favorites and everything else from a broken PC that no longer works onto a new, working replacement PC.
The process uses an automatic computer rescue software, so it does not require a lot of technical knowledge for a successful recovery. You can use this tutorial in the following scenarios:
Fortunately, if your hard drive is not completely dead, you can recover not just files, but even your settings and programs to a new computer. Read on to find out how.
Video tutorial how to recover programs, settings and files from a dead computerGet the hard drive out of the broken computer and connect to replacement PCThe first step in rescuing programs and data from a broken computer is take out its hard drive, and connect it to a replacement computer. Lets see how to do that. First, take the old drive out of the broken PC:
Now that you have the hard drive, you need to connect it to the new computer. There are several ways to do this:
Once the old drive is connected to the new computer, in any of the ways above, you should be able to view the old files. At that point, you can proceed to the recovery stage. Recover your files, settings, profile and programs from the broken computers hard driveAt this stage, you can access the old files on the new computer. This already a big step forward! You can look for the files you need, and manually copy them to the new PC. This type of manual recovery is not the easiest job to do, but it will at least get you your files back. Fortunately, there are tools to do an automatic recovery, completely and easy. The one well use called Zinstall Migration Kit Pro will even recover your programs, and of course emails, personalization, settings, documents and all the rest. Plus, its automatic and you wont have to hunt everything down manually. Lets see how. |