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Bill_S_1
Explorer
Feb 18, 2015

Can old laptop hard drive appear as 2nd drive on new lapop?

My old WinXP (Toshiba) laptop, which I really like better than the new Win7 Dell, has a few poblems. It's 9 years old, and I think the screen has gone out. The computer works on an extenal vga monitor...
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rk911
Explorer
Feb 18, 2015
BobsYourUncle wrote:
You can set up the old drive in the manner you describe but you can only access it as a storage device.
You cannot run any programs on it. You will have to re-instal the programs on the new laptop and then access the data on the old drive.


or you could re-install the old programs on the old drive that is now connected to the new laptop via USB. the key is you have to re-install those programs.

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