nordic.nymph

I have one of these:





With important stuff on it from my old laptop.

I need to know how to get that stuff off of that, and put it on here:



Is there some kind of usb cord or something that I can hook up to the hard drive and then plug into my new laptops usb port?

simpswr

You can use an adaptor like this

. . or an external enclosure like these

nordic.nymph

I just found this:
http://www.apricorn.com/product_deta...e=family&id=39
but from the description of it I don't know if it just copies the whole hard drive or if you can go in and explore your hard drive and only transfer certain files.

simpswr

That looks like just an adaptor ( sinilar to the one I suggested ) . . once you have it connected, you should be able to browse the drive and copy the files you want to keep.

Tyree

The Apricorn adapter is a much better adapter and it comes with a version of Acronis.
You won't need any software to transfer selected files, "Sent To" or "Drag and Drop".
Newegg has it for $35 w/$10 rebate.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812161002

nordic.nymph

I ordered the hard drive adapter off of newegg and it plugs into the hard drive, powers it and all that but when I open it up to look at the files on it, when I try to go into my account folder it says "access denied" and the only option it gives me is "ok". I can go into the guest folder but not mine. I'm quite positive that it's because the accounts on my old laptop had passwords. How do I (or is there even a way to) override this?

simpswr

You may need to take ownership of the files in order to copy them

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421