Hard drive transfer

[balloney]

My Windows XP is twelve years old and very cranky.
I have bought a laptop and wish to tranfer files over to it from the cranky PC.
The problem is that the PC has stopped turning on properly for me to access my files.
I have been to Class Olsen and in the computer dept, they have a
Guan May Docking station for 2.5" and 3.5" HDD. £45.00
You place the harddrive into the docking station to retrive the data.

Could this be my salvation?

[ChuckFickens]

Yes.

It's expensive though.

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[Old_Geezer]

You could probably get a different enclosure for less than £45, but yes, I tend to be astonished at how much they charge for them. You could try places like Maplin. However if Chuck's 'adapter kit' works for you, you'd be fortunate to find anything cheaper than that.

[ChuckFickens]

You can get caddies or adaptors cheaper than the one I linked to that will do a single type and size of hard drive, but the one in my link will do 2.5 inch (Laptop) and 3.5 inch (Desktop) drives in both SATA and IDE so it's a useful bit of kit to have, I have one of them in my kit at all times.

[bassmanjack]

Computer shops are usually happy to do a 'data transfer' for you. It's fairly cheap and you don't have to buy any kit you will only use once.
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