Hard Drive Swap

_Bubs_ · 10-11-2010, 10:02 PM

So my my friend has two identical laptops. Same model and everything, anyways i swamped his hard drive and he says the hard drive is missing everything (but logs into his windows and all desktop files are there). Shouldn't everything still be on there?

Fatimmortal · 10-11-2010, 10:15 PM

You swamped it? What? Did you mean that you reformatted it?

masta121 · 10-11-2010, 10:16 PM

Yes, please explain what you mean by "swamped" That's not a term that hardware geeks use, ever.

_Bubs_ · 10-11-2010, 10:39 PM

Sorry auto spell changed my word.

I meant just exchanged the hard drives from laptop 1 to laptop 2 because laptop 1 went down (water on keyboard)

marie pavie · 10-11-2010, 10:44 PM

You would need to 'clone' it for everything to be the same.

_Bubs_ · 10-11-2010, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marie pavie

You would need to 'clone' it for everything to be the same.

Let me re-explain it to make sure

Laptop 1 (broken)
Laptop 2 (working)

He wants the information from laptop 1 onto laptop 2. Just i just exchanged the hard drives from laptop 1 to laptop 2, wouldn't all data still be on there?

borg_7_of_9 · 10-11-2010, 11:10 PM

it should be..

Why Whats missing?

Gone'Postal · 10-11-2010, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Bubs_

Let me re-explain it to make sure

Laptop 1 (broken)
Laptop 2 (working)

He wants the information from laptop 1 onto laptop 2. Just i just exchanged the hard drives from laptop 1 to laptop 2, wouldn't all data still be on there?

Yes it would be.

Everything would be the same on L2 as it was on L1

nabokovfan87 · 10-11-2010, 11:17 PM

You can either clone it on a third PC, or just get a USB to sata cable and copy the data that way.

Fuzz Bucket · 10-11-2010, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Bubs_

Let me re-explain it to make sure

Laptop 1 (broken)
Laptop 2 (working)

He wants the information from laptop 1 onto laptop 2. Just i just exchanged the hard drives from laptop 1 to laptop 2, wouldn't all data still be on there?

Correct.

_Bubs_ · 10-12-2010, 08:48 AM

Okay thank you. Im not sure whats missing but he said nothing is on there. He is bringing it by and i will take a look at it. Thanks again.

Fatimmortal · 10-12-2010, 08:55 AM

It could be a matter of encryption, which disallows data written to the hard disk from one PC to be unreadable on another PC.

Speaking of which, did he encrypt any of the files from the damaged laptop?

zezzex · 10-12-2010, 11:15 AM

I will go out on a limb and guess that he wasn't using encryption. Even if he did, the encryption would be on the hard drive, and moving it to another laptop, all the encryption should work just fine.

My guess is that all his files are still there, and the guy just doesnt know what he's talking about.

borg_7_of_9 · 10-12-2010, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zezzex

I will go out on a limb and guess that he wasn't using encryption. Even if he did, the encryption would be on the hard drive, and moving it to another laptop, all the encryption should work just fine.

My guess is that all his files are still there, and the guy just doesnt know what he's talking about.

Ether that or he got the HHD's mixed up and put the same one back in or the laptop's mixed up and swapped them for no reason lol.

or nothing is working cos the bios does not recognize the HHD as it was not set to auto-detect..

10-11-2010, 10:02 PM	#1
_Bubs_ Join Date: Jan 2007 Reputation: 55 Posts: 876	Hard Drive Swap So my my friend has two identical laptops. Same model and everything, anyways i swamped his hard drive and he says the hard drive is missing everything (but logs into his windows and all desktop files are there). Shouldn't everything still be on there?

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10-11-2010, 10:15 PM	#2
Fatimmortal Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Reputation: 377 Posts: 2,505	You swamped it? What? Did you mean that you reformatted it?

10-11-2010, 10:16 PM	#3
masta121 Join Date: Apr 2006 Reputation: 670 Posts: 4,068	Yes, please explain what you mean by "swamped" That's not a term that hardware geeks use, ever.

10-11-2010, 10:39 PM	#4
_Bubs_ Join Date: Jan 2007 Reputation: 55 Posts: 876	Sorry auto spell changed my word. I meant just exchanged the hard drives from laptop 1 to laptop 2 because laptop 1 went down (water on keyboard)

10-11-2010, 10:44 PM	#5
marie pavie Join Date: Jan 2005 Reputation: 21513 Posts: 10,159	You would need to 'clone' it for everything to be the same.

10-11-2010, 11:10 PM	#7
borg_7_of_9 Join Date: Nov 2007 Reputation: 2604 Posts: 12,716	it should be.. Why Whats missing?

10-11-2010, 11:17 PM	#9
nabokovfan87 Join Date: Jun 2008 Reputation: 308 Posts: 1,431	You can either clone it on a third PC, or just get a USB to sata cable and copy the data that way.

10-12-2010, 08:48 AM	#11
_Bubs_ Join Date: Jan 2007 Reputation: 55 Posts: 876	Okay thank you. Im not sure whats missing but he said nothing is on there. He is bringing it by and i will take a look at it. Thanks again.

10-12-2010, 08:55 AM	#12
Fatimmortal Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Reputation: 377 Posts: 2,505	It could be a matter of encryption, which disallows data written to the hard disk from one PC to be unreadable on another PC. Speaking of which, did he encrypt any of the files from the damaged laptop?

10-12-2010, 11:15 AM	#13
zezzex Join Date: Oct 2006 Reputation: 691 Posts: 3,506	I will go out on a limb and guess that he wasn't using encryption. Even if he did, the encryption would be on the hard drive, and moving it to another laptop, all the encryption should work just fine. My guess is that all his files are still there, and the guy just doesnt know what he's talking about.