Info required RE transferring data / files from OLD tower to laptop

kireir

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Jul 22, 2016
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Found my old tower at my parents house today, looking to find out how I would go about transferring old files from that onto my laptop. No screen (unfortunately), just the tower. Will it be a simple case of hooking it up with a double ended USB and away I go? Have NO way nor intention of pulling it apart and removing HD. TIA
 
Solution
Need to take the hdd out and put it in an external dock.
Or connect the tower to a tv or monitor and burn the data or transfer it to a usb drive.

kireir

Commendable
Jul 22, 2016
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1,510


Thanks for that. Unfortunately don't have access to another tower but a friend pointed me in the direction of cabling equipment to use as an external hd.

Excuse me being clueless - what cables would I need to connect to tv? Tower is that old, it doesn't have a HDMI slot, really stuck with this! TIA