Hard drive in another computer

[carlege]

alright guys my laptop completely went dead on me and i bought a new one.. i am going to put my old hardrive in this computer... should i be concerned with drivers and such that arnt meant to support the newer computer or should it not be a problem

 

[ECTech]

So, you want to put the old hard drive in your new laptop??

 

[carlege]

yes because of important school files and rendering programs are already installed in the old hardrive

its a better quality HD Western Digital and it will save me many hours of loading and configuring programs

 

[macdude425]

You WILL have to reinstall Windows on the harddrive or it will BSOD everytime. My suggestion is to put the harddrive in, find yourself a Linux LiveCD or something, and backup to pendrive/tape drive/server/whatever you can backup to. Then, reformat and reinstall.

 

[carlege]

alright so i guess its not as easy as just installing the hardrive.

i do have most of the programs backed up on my desktop (reason i built the desktop)

so i put the hardrive in and run Linux LiveCD what will this do... enable me to view the files on the HD? and then back it up to my desktop through a thumb drive?
where will i get linux live cd....

or could i get an adapter for my desktop and read the drive directly to that

 

[carlege]

are there adapters out there?

 

[macdude425]

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Yes. Places like Newegg have them.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812203012

 

[carlege]

macdude thankyou very much for your help.. i wll try the knopper first then try to spend money on an adapter