Post by Darren on Feb 19, 2015 8:07:37 GMT
Whilst working on my laptop on Tuesday I decided to make a cup of tea and placed the laptop on the sofa next to me. On returning from the kitchen I found it on the floor. It had slipped off the sofa whilst it was still switched on and I was in the kitchen. Anyway, all appeared to be working OK until I went to shut down. It took ages and after 10 minutes I had to do the extended on/off button push to get it to turn off.
When I switched back on it would not boot to Windows complaining of a hardware failure. I tried a restore point and a startup repair from the installation CD but to no avail.
I removed the drive from my laptop and got the desktop PC to recognize it as a slave. I've managed to rescue some of my source files and 3DC stuff but not all of it as Windows consistently complained about bad files and impending hard drive failure.
I've purchased a new SSD hard drive for the laptop but what I want to know is can I just copy the entire contents from the working hard drive to my new one and it will boot when I install it in my laptop or do I need to install the operating system on it then copy across all the other files. Is there some way of copying the whole image of the working hard drive to my new one?
Cheers.
Darren.
When I switched back on it would not boot to Windows complaining of a hardware failure. I tried a restore point and a startup repair from the installation CD but to no avail.
I removed the drive from my laptop and got the desktop PC to recognize it as a slave. I've managed to rescue some of my source files and 3DC stuff but not all of it as Windows consistently complained about bad files and impending hard drive failure.
I've purchased a new SSD hard drive for the laptop but what I want to know is can I just copy the entire contents from the working hard drive to my new one and it will boot when I install it in my laptop or do I need to install the operating system on it then copy across all the other files. Is there some way of copying the whole image of the working hard drive to my new one?
Cheers.
Darren.
