How do I boot an older HDD from Haier Laptop on my Elitebook?

[techster69]

I had a Haier Laptop (Win 10) 2 years back which I had to sell at the time, but I kept my HDD (500GB) and now I have an Elitebook 8570p Core i5. 

I have data in my older HDD and I want to access it and recover it, and i want to do so without losing any of it. I tried to boot it by connecting it with my Elitebook but I get an error, "BootDevice Not Found" etc.

Help needed 🙂

[KFerrabelo]

You probably won't be able to boot it on the new laptop due to drivers and such but the best solution is to turn it into an external USB drive that you'll be able to access from any pc/laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-Adapter-Optimized-EC-SSHD/dp/B011M8YACM/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3PB4...

Thanks,

Kevin

[yolomic123]

Thats not possible due to drivers but u can buy an adapter and make it external HDD its the same think like booting from usb
:)))))

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You do not need to boot from it to access the data on it. You can just hook it up with a usb to SATA adapter and copy and paste files off of it. If you want to save the running apps that is a bit harder. There are apps which will transfer all files and settings and apps off the old drive onto a new drive and let you run the same setup on another hardware platform. 

https://www.easeus.com/pc-transfer/free-pc-mover-for-windows8-7.html

This is one I have used successfully to transfer from a Windows 7 PC to a new Windows 10 installation. Its not free and you get a single use license but I can say it worked fine. This will even move the installation over from just a hard drive as opposed to a running computer. 

https://www.zinstall.com/how-to/how-to-transfer-programs-and-files-to-new-computer

Post back with any other questions. 

[techster69]

Thanks for replying mate, you too Kevin, now after I get one of those Connectors for the HDD, do I need to do anything else or just straight up connect it and it'll start working?? A little insight please 🙏

[yolomic123]

no just hook it up and you are ready to go but after opening your machine

[Huffer]

Just hook it up and it will mount and the files will be available to the Windows installation on the new computer. 

[techster69]

Thanks for the response, now I don't need EVERYTHING off it, just my old files and stuff, the rest I don't care about 👍🏻👍🏻

[techster69]

Thanks a ton Huffer and Yolomic123, I'll get my hands on one of those and get to it, and if I run into any issues I'll post it here. In the meantime thanks to all of you for guiding me, highly appreciated 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Huffer]

Then its easy peasy.