How to Backup Data From a Dead Computer to a New One

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Charles Stewart, Jr. and I'm going to back up data from a dead computer to a new one. First thing to prevent this from happening period is to, it's smart to you again, extra internal drive or external drive for you to keep all your personal files and you know, any music, videos that you download, stuffs like that. Just to have is a backup and then there's also backup software that you can have, you know, to back up to that drive just to make sure that if a computer die on you, you're not left without, not left in the situation. But most of the time, you haven't done it, so you are in the situation. And that's what we're going to show you. What you want to do is, you want to take the hard drive out of this computer and move it over to this one. Basically, 'cause this seems dead, that's all you can really do with it. If it's not the hard drive's fault, if the, you know, you found out that its the motherboard or the processor or something's dead and the hard drive is still good, then you'll move that hard drive out of here and move it into your new or other computer you have. And it's pretty simple, I would, you know, go through the motions, but every cases is different, so it'll be kind of pointless. So, if you look at it, you can find out just by removing, you know, the screws and stuffs and pulling all the stuff open. This is a note, make sure your computer is unplugged when you're doing any of this of these stuff and also make sure you're grounded in some ways, so you're not giving that accidental static discharge into the equipment and shorting it out and destroying it. So once you get that out, you pretty much put it in here. As you can see, there' other base so you can have, put another internal. And when you got to boot it up, you'll probably see the operating system will tell you there's two versions of windows because they're both bootable drives. You'll want to stay on the current drive that you have, which would probably be the C drive and boot into your current version or your old version if you want to, but I would boot into your current version of Windows that's on your new computer and then access that drive and then pull off the information you need. And then maybe format it so you can, you know, take that, you know, save that and use that drive for something else. Or you can save both versions on there to boot into either one and whatever you like. And that's pretty much it for backing up data from onto a new one."