Is this Possible?

jmedina

jmedina

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My friend had a desktop computer running Windows XP. He tried installing a DVD-ROM Drive and fryed the motherboard. He now has recently bought a Dell laptop running Windows Vista. He still has the Hard Drive from his desktop computer. Can he buy a enclosure and plug it into his laptop and have it boot from XP? He wants to get his stuff from the old Hard Drive onto Vista.
 
yes he can pull stuff from the encloser. but he will not be able to boot from it. since the hardware is different it will get bsod all the time
 
brianmay27 said:
yes he can pull stuff from the encloser. but he will not be able to boot from it. since the hardware is different it will get bsod all the time
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I agree. But like brianmay said, at least he can get his stuff off the old drive.

My condolences about hearing he bought a Dell.
 
I know. It runs kind of slow. It has 2 GB RAM, But stills's runs Vista very laggy. I'm going to recommend Ubuntu to him. Since he already has the Hard Drive, It will be cool to install Kubuntu or Ubuntu on it and have it boot off the external drive. But, Will he be able to migrate stuff to vista at all?
 
I don't think he want's to boot from it. What he want's to do it plug it into his laptop while vista is running. Would it come up as a removeable drive? When I go to click on the Drive, What will it come up with?
 
If you get an enclosure it will just turn your hard drive into a removable one. When you plug it into the system it will read it as a hard drive and depending on your motherboard, you can boot from it too, but USB2.0 is never as fast as SATA or IDE for that matter.
Enclosures are really cheap.
 
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