Been searching for how to do this and only get "use the tool" or transfering instead of migration. I have a windows 7 home premium 64 bit laptop where the integrated video card on the motherboard failed, so there's no way to see the display to do a migration using the tool. I have a new windows 7 pro 64 bit laptop. How do I migrate my files, programs, and data to the new laptop using the old hard drive hooked up via USB? Note, I have not booted the W7pro laptop hdd yet, but have installed the W7hp drive into the new computer, however, am having driver issues by doing it that way, so I want to migrate to the newer W7pro.
Migrate from windows 7 laptop (loose hard drive) to another windows 7 laptop
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- Nov 18, 2008
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I think cloning [ which I think is what you mean by migrating ] wont work unless the aptops had identical hardware .
You can copy the files by uninstalling the hard drive from the laptop and connecting it to a SATA port on a desktop computer . From there they can be copied and transferred
You can copy the files by uninstalling the hard drive from the laptop and connecting it to a SATA port on a desktop computer . From there they can be copied and transferred
Thank you Outlander_4, I was able to use your cloning suggestion to copy my hard drive to an external 2TB hard drive, before I attempted the Windows Easy Transfer.
The new laptop had different hardware but I attempted to boot the old hard drive anyway, the new hardware "fixed" enough of the drivers to sort-of boot into the old OS. I was able to utilize the "Windows Easy Transfer" using the External USB Hard Drive option to create an image of the booted old hard drive under the "this is my old computer" option. Had to wait a week due to needing to use the laptop offsite, using the old hard drive (with lousy graphics) all week. But then swapped the hard drives today, booted the new OS, waited through the updates, then utilized the Windows Easy Transfer with the image on the External USB Hard Drive to get my old settings and personal data. Some programs survived the transfer but most did not. The report from the Windows Easy Transfer showed a list of software that did not get transferred, many I "lost", but I did make a list of the ones I wanted to install or not install on the new OS.
Note this was a transfer from Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. Any reading of the old hard drive using USB on a Windows 8.1 was a fail. I didn't try migrating to Windows 8.1, but rather took that one back to get this Windows 7 Pro laptop.
Am still doing software re-installation.
The new laptop had different hardware but I attempted to boot the old hard drive anyway, the new hardware "fixed" enough of the drivers to sort-of boot into the old OS. I was able to utilize the "Windows Easy Transfer" using the External USB Hard Drive option to create an image of the booted old hard drive under the "this is my old computer" option. Had to wait a week due to needing to use the laptop offsite, using the old hard drive (with lousy graphics) all week. But then swapped the hard drives today, booted the new OS, waited through the updates, then utilized the Windows Easy Transfer with the image on the External USB Hard Drive to get my old settings and personal data. Some programs survived the transfer but most did not. The report from the Windows Easy Transfer showed a list of software that did not get transferred, many I "lost", but I did make a list of the ones I wanted to install or not install on the new OS.
Note this was a transfer from Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. Any reading of the old hard drive using USB on a Windows 8.1 was a fail. I didn't try migrating to Windows 8.1, but rather took that one back to get this Windows 7 Pro laptop.
Am still doing software re-installation.
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