Best way to move HD from Dell Lat D620 to Dell Lat D600
I have two Dell Latitude laptops from a client. The 1st one is a D600 has a bad screen, the 2nd is a Lat D620 that went dead.
I tried booting the D620 with a monitor plugged in the back, but it turns off with no hd activity or Dell logo or post on the video. There is no video at all. I reseated the memory, reseated the hd, tested the power adaptor (Power LED is lot on PS and laptop). I suspect the motherboard is damaged.
I would like to pull the hd from the D620 and put it in the D600 with a monitor plugged in to verify it works on. My real question is how do I get XP running and update the drivers properly without messing up the files system on the swapped hard drive?
I tried booting the D620 with a monitor plugged in the back, but it turns off with no hd activity or Dell logo or post on the video. There is no video at all. I reseated the memory, reseated the hd, tested the power adaptor (Power LED is lot on PS and laptop). I suspect the motherboard is damaged.
I would like to pull the hd from the D620 and put it in the D600 with a monitor plugged in to verify it works on. My real question is how do I get XP running and update the drivers properly without messing up the files system on the swapped hard drive?
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Randy Downs
You cane get Dell drivers here - http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/ussoho1/DriversHome/NeedProductSelection
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Well, I just tried swapping the HD's. To my surprise, one is IDE, the other is Sata. I'll have to reinstall XP on the good drive, copy the good drive to another pc, back off the docs and copy them to the D600.
So much for a quick process. Thanks for your suggestions.
So much for a quick process. Thanks for your suggestions.
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You might try Windows Backup to an external drive to save time. An image might even work on another machine.
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Et al,
These are all very good suggestions, but did I read the problem description correctly, neither of these two units are functional at this point - Am I correct in the problem statement? Maybe I missed something - My Bad if so.
Rojosho
These are all very good suggestions, but did I read the problem description correctly, neither of these two units are functional at this point - Am I correct in the problem statement? Maybe I missed something - My Bad if so.
Rojosho
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I appreciate all the suggestions. In the end, we had to replace the laptop with a new one and copy data off after connecting it to another system. As I mentioned above, one drive was Sata and the othwer IDE, so I couldn't just swap the drives. Even though I didn't receive a solution that I could implement, but i've distributed points evenly to all of you for your time and knowledge.
Hola TG-TIS y et al,
Thank you for the updateand the points :) ... live long and prosper.
Rojosho
Thank you for the updateand the points :) ... live long and prosper.
Rojosho
tx for feedback