Hello. Basically, laptop A (sony vaio) died due to charging/battery issues. It goes beyond the battery, and a fix won't be simple. (it's the charging port itself) Laptop B (an old Dell) is my Mother's old laptop that's very slow and bloated but salvageable. I put the Hard Drive from A into the Dell (B) just to see what happens, and I get the Dell BIOS screen, then "Windows loading files" screen, and they bounce back and forth (seemingly) forever. BIOS is ordered to load from HDD first. Now, I didn't expect this to just, work. I imagine drivers need to be changed, or something. Basically, how can I use this hard drive on the Dell? I've installed it properly and all that, the issue is making it compatible. I really want the data on the HD, and if I can't use this laptop I'll suck it up and go buy a HD Enclosure, but I'd like to do this if possible. Both are same type SATA Laptop hard drives, one Samsung one Toshiba.
Updated- forgot to add important bit. Laptop A Hard Drive (The one I WANT to use) is windows Vista HP. Laptop B had/has windows XP. I can imagine that would be important!
Thanks for any help!
Updated- forgot to add important bit. Laptop A Hard Drive (The one I WANT to use) is windows Vista HP. Laptop B had/has windows XP. I can imagine that would be important!
Thanks for any help!
/support.microsoft.com/kb/927392. Secondly the drivers from the old machine will incur a driver conflict inwhich this is the hardest part to do as you can't install drivers in safe mode. So its a trail and error to see if you can manage to wipe the drivers and install the new ones. I can recommend booting into safe mode and using a driver wiper to delete the current drivers https
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