I have a old Windows XP 32-bit computer that won't start up (has not been started up in probably 4 years, the computer and hard drive are around 10 years old). But I now want to get all my old picture/video files to my brand new (self built) windows 7 64-bit computer.
I Don't want to delete any files off the old hard drive, I just want to copy files over to the new hard drive.
Is there any risk to losing data on the old hard drive by doing these steps below? :
>Make sure that the new computer has up to date antivirus software.
>If the old drive is SATA, just pull it and install it in the new computer using a SATA power connector from the PSU and a SATA data cable.
>If it is an IDE drive, use the data cable from the old computer and plug it into the IDE port on the motherboard. Connect a 4 pin drive cable.
>All of the cables are keyed and they will only go in one way.
>Make sure to go into the BIOS on POST and select the Hard Drive in your new computer to boot from. If not it could try to boot the old HD first (depending on your SATA order).
>Make sure that the computer can see both drives. Do a virus scan. Then transfer the data files. Do not transfer any program files or .DLL files. You could be transfering a virus.
The step above came from here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/267011-32-hooking-computer-internal-hard-drive-computer-slave
I Don't want to delete any files off the old hard drive, I just want to copy files over to the new hard drive.
Is there any risk to losing data on the old hard drive by doing these steps below? :
>Make sure that the new computer has up to date antivirus software.
>If the old drive is SATA, just pull it and install it in the new computer using a SATA power connector from the PSU and a SATA data cable.
>If it is an IDE drive, use the data cable from the old computer and plug it into the IDE port on the motherboard. Connect a 4 pin drive cable.
>All of the cables are keyed and they will only go in one way.
>Make sure to go into the BIOS on POST and select the Hard Drive in your new computer to boot from. If not it could try to boot the old HD first (depending on your SATA order).
>Make sure that the computer can see both drives. Do a virus scan. Then transfer the data files. Do not transfer any program files or .DLL files. You could be transfering a virus.
The step above came from here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/267011-32-hooking-computer-internal-hard-drive-computer-slave
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