Transferring data from sata hard drive to sata hard drive

[kuntrygrl]

I had a sony laptop that died. But I need the data from the HD. How do I transfer the data from the old HD to the new HD.... Both HD are sata HD....
Thanks
Julie

 

[house70]

If you need to transfer everything, including the OS, you pretty much have to clone the HDD.
If you only need some important data off the old HDD, then you could use a double docking solution with a third PC, or a single docking solution with the new laptop. I am talking about something like:
http://www.google.com/#q=sata+docking&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=YL25TYSgAoKitgfBovzdBA&ved=0CEsQrQQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=8a6d8d44eb74daa6&biw=1920&bih=930

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