Used hard drive installation.

[mobileman]

I have an older computer that I loaned out to a friend and the mother board gave out. I didn't back up the hard drive before I gave it to them, it is possible to put this hard drive with an os installed and pull off the info I would like to retrieve?????
Or is it a lost cause.

 

[nightowl17]

Yes you should be able to do it , when the HDD starts up you will see a bunch of Found New Hardware installs because windows will yp date to the new PC , But Be warned some of the drivers will have to be loaded seperately [sound&video-modem] I have switched hard drives from PC to PC a couple of times with no searious effects

 

[MA5]

Hi mobileman
Assuming the pc that you will use has an existing HDD and its BIOS boot from it first, then you just need to do the following:
1- add old HDD to pc with correct jumper setting.
2- in BIOS, detect the old HDD and make sure the OS is loaded from the existing HDD.
3- when in normal OS mode, there will be a new HDD added to your system.

The above method does not require any new driver installation. It is as simple as 1 2 3.
Good luck