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I thought I would come to you guys for some advice with my busted windows 7 latptop. It's an old Dell, piece of shit, and the keyboard is broken. I have a lot of stuff on that HDD that I'd like to save. My question is what is the best way to get the data off this thing?

My first thought was to buy an external HDD enclosure, pop that HDD in and use it as a backup drive. My concern is it has a running windows 7 OS installed. Will that create a conflict with making it an external HDD? I'm trying to avoid wiping the drive.

What other solutions are available for transferring the data I want off?

Thanks in advance for the help!

It should not cause any conflict if you have Windows loaded on the hard drive. It won't harm anything on your computer, and you should be able to see all of the data that is on that drive.

You can plug it into an external enclosure, or use eSata or just plug it directly with SATA and Power (assuming it's a desktop).

My suggestion to you is if you are going to use the HDD enclosure, back up all the things you need from the drive then wipe it and transfer everything back onto it. Although it seems like a tedious process, it's the easiest way to get rid of any junk Windows files that are taking up space on your hard drive.

you can get a usb to sata or ide cradle or if u got a desktop and its sata plug it in the desktop and get ur stuff