Posted 16 March 2018 - 04:57 PM
I have a computer with Windows 10 and a internal hard drive with windows 7
I would like to get the data of the window 7 hard drive
What I would like to know is would it be safe to simply remove the win 10 HDD and hook up the Win 7 HDD and move the data to and external hard drive
though one is 10 and the other is 7 can it jack up my computer in anyway
sorry if this a stupid question
please help thank you
Edited by Dumwan, 16 March 2018 - 05:30 PM.
Posted 16 March 2018 - 05:57 PM
Is the computer you have a desktop with space for an extra drive? If you have a laptop then you can't expect the Windows 7 hard drive to boot in different hardware. You would need a USB adapter similar to this one.
Another way around it would be to put the Windows 7 drive in the laptop and boot a live linux disk like Mint which would allow you to copy the data off the drive to a USB external. If the laptop was pre-installed with Windows 8 or 10 you will need to disable SecureBoot in your compute's UEFI settings.
Posted 17 March 2018 - 08:47 AM
it's a desktop I was talking about removing the hard drive with windows 10 hooking up the window 7 hard drive getting the data off then reinstall the win 10 hard drive will that causes any issue
Posted 17 March 2018 - 09:31 AM
As I posted, because the hardware on the computer is different than the hardware on the Windows 7 computer it may not boot but you can give it a try. In any case on the Windows 10 computer, if pre-installed with Windows 8 or 10, you would need to disable SecureBoot in your UEFI settings. Windows 7 does not support SecureBoot. Also, if the Windows 7 HDD has a MBR partition table and not GPT ( the older computer with Windows 7 has a legacy BIOS and not UEFI) you will need to change your setting in UEFI to Legacy or CSM boot before Windows 7 would be able to boot and there are no guarantees it could boot.
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
Back to top
