There are situations when it is necessary to transfer information stored on the hard drive of a laptop to a stationary computer. Some difficulties may arise due to the incompatibility of the connectors. But they can be easily removed using special adapters.
Instructions
Step 1
Use an adapter to connect your laptop hard drive to your PC. Why is this needed? If your laptop is 3 years old, then there is a risk that the hard drive may fail. To avoid the complete loss of the necessary information, you need to make a backup copy, which will be contained on the hard disk of your personal computer.
Step 2
Purchase an adapter from any computer store. Then, to connect the laptop hard drive to the computer, connect the adapter with the wide side to the IDE cable of the desktop computer motherboard. Connect the laptop hard drive connector to the narrow part of the adapter. Be sure to disconnect the power from the computer before performing these manipulations.
Step 3
Power up the stationary computer after connecting the laptop hard drive to the computer. The new device will be detected at boot time. Please note that you can only transfer all the necessary data to the hard drive of your personal computer after a second reboot. It does not matter what version of the Service Pack the operating system is using. Repeated downloads cannot be avoided.
Step 4
Use a special HDD container if you don't want to mess with adapters and if the process of transferring data from a laptop hard drive to a PC will be repeated quite often. This container connects to a computer using a USB cable. This imposes certain restrictions on the data transfer rate, but at the same time makes the process more convenient. An HDD container can be purchased at any computer store. There are several versions, among which there is a container, which itself is an adapter from the IDE motherboard of a stationary computer. Those. when using it, the speed of data exchange does not suffer, as is the case with a USB container.
