I had a hard drive failure on my Dell Inspiron N5110. I bought a new one and already exchanged it. Now I have the old one in hope to recover all my files from it. I have an adapter that lets me access my failed hard drive onto a different desktop computer, which works fine, but I'm not sure if I should transfer all my files as I use my desktop computer as an "external drive"? What if I have a corrupt file or something of that nature on it, will it affect my desktop computer? And I definitely do not want that corrupted file on my new hard drive in my laptop.
Retrieving Information From Crashed Hard Drive
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smorizio
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With the old drive you just want to move your personal files to the desktop with the bad drive still working. Make a new folder called laptop backup and just cut and past old files onto the hard drive. As long as you don't move widows or a program files to the hard drive you be fine. Just use a good anti virus and malware program and scan all your drives before the data move.
I'm sorry, I'm still having trouble understanding. Where should I make they "Laptop Backup" folder? On my desktop? Or on the old hard drive via clicking on "My Computer", etc. I'm essentially using the desktop computer as the "middle man" here, as a means of storing the files until I'm ready to put it back onto my new drive. And if you mean to make that folder on my desktop, should I just copy and paste everything? The only thing that worries me is that the same corrupted file (if there actually is one) would get copied over to my desktop computer, and eventually onto my new hard drive in my laptop. I also saw a video about this whole process and the man behind the camera strongly advised to NOT run a scan on the old drive.
smorizio
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On the new laptop your going to install windows and your programs again. On the old drive you can plug it into your pc then turn on file and print sharing and pull the data onto the laptop over the network. If not your going to have to use USB sticks or drop the files onto your desktop. There may be damaged files you can't tell till you try an open them. If you need to after you pull the data off and some of it bad you ca try free software recovery like recovia.
Moving or copying corrupted or damaged files is not at all an issue and it will not affect your other computer. The filesystem driver on the machine that it's connected to will keep everything nice and organized. The worst that could happen is that parts of the drive are unreadable and it disconnects from the port controller.
Corrupted data isn't weaponized polio, it's more like a beat up truck.
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