Retrieving data off old laptop hard drive

My motherboard crapped out on my HP dv6000 a week ago and so I decided it was time to upgrade. I just ordered a new dell latitude e6410 so I'm really excited!

Anyway, my dv6000 will not charge and is completely dead. I am trying to figure out the easiest and most economically sound way to get everything off my hard drive and on to my new machine.

I have done some google research and some of the methods look a bit complicated. Can anyone help me out with this? Would it be cheaper to take it to a store?

Thanks!

Volfan996 said:

My motherboard crapped out on my HP dv6000 a week ago and so I decided it was time to upgrade. I just ordered a new dell latitude e6410 so I'm really excited!

Anyway, my dv6000 will not charge and is completely dead. I am trying to figure out the easiest and most economically sound way to get everything off my hard drive and on to my new machine.

I have done some google research and some of the methods look a bit complicated. Can anyone help me out with this? Would it be cheaper to take it to a store?

Thanks!

I'm a bit confused, you said your mobo crapped out then you said it won't charge. I'm wondering if what you are trying to say is your battery is dead and you can't get the laptop to boot.

If this is what you mean then do the following, remove the battery and power connector, hold down the power button for 30 seconds, this will drain off residual power in the circuits. Plug the power connector back in.

If your laptop boots then I'd see if the files could be placed on a CD, or DVD if you have the writer for this, a USB stick or if neither of these is possible I'd wait until you have the new laptop. Windows 7 will download you old PC files automatically if you follow the process and if your laptop can run on power with the battery that is what I would do, if not I'd buy an external enclosure as has been already posted.

If you do get your notebooting, you can a transfer cable.

Easy Transfer Cable for Windows Vista: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Windows Easy Transfer - Transfer To & From Computers

theog said:

If you do get your notebooting, you can a transfer cable.

Easy Transfer Cable for Windows Vista: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Windows Easy Transfer - Transfer To & From Computers

If both his laptops have wireless he won't need a cable, took just under 3 hours for 75Gb when I did mine.

fishnbanjo said:

I'm a bit confused, you said your mobo crapped out then you said it won't charge. I'm wondering if what you are trying to say is your battery is dead and you can't get the laptop to boot.

If this is what you mean then do the following, remove the battery and power connector, hold down the power button for 30 seconds, this will drain off residual power in the circuits. Plug the power connector back in.

If your laptop boots then I'd see if the files could be placed on a CD, or DVD if you have the writer for this, a USB stick or if neither of these is possible I'd wait until you have the new laptop. Windows 7 will download you old PC files automatically if you follow the process and if your laptop can run on power with the battery that is what I would do, if not I'd buy an external enclosure as has been already posted.

When I was using it a few weeks ago, it blue screened and shut off. I then noticed that the power cable wasn't charging the battery (Both the battery and charger are less than 2 months old).

I took the battery out, waited a few minutes, put it back in and I could get it to boot. It didn't have much power so I checked the systems log and there was a bunch of hardware and processor errors. I didn't have time to record them all because it ran out of power pretty quick.

I have tried using 2 different charges and I can't get it to turn on or get any power whatsoever.

I also don't have a desktop so I'll look into the star tech

Well I am officially about to pull my hair out.

I contacted HP with my hard drive part number to ask them what type of enclosure I needed to buy. I was told that my hard drive was SATA 2.5"

So I ordered the StarTEch 2.5" eSATA & USB 2.0 SATA drive enclosure. Of course, the hard drive does not fit.

I called HP back and they told me that this is simply not the case and that it should fit. Well after searching around, I still can't figure out what I need to do. Can someone please help me out? I really need to get some files off this hard drive.

Thanks

Well I figured it out. It would help to remove the plastic cover on the hard drive in order to connect the 2 pieces.