Want to use my old harddrive with my new laptop

[Mac0816]

I have a old laptop it's a toshiba satellite A505 and the hard drive is fine but the laptop is done. I got a new laptop and I have a dock. I want to know if I can use the harddrive in the dock and run the programs with my new computer?

 

[Valkyrieneos]

Why not just make a backup and copy the backup to the new drive instead

 

[Mac0816]

Why not just make a backup and copy the backup to the new drive instead

The toshiba is a windows 7 the new one is a dell windows 10 I can't really use the toshiba everytime I turn it on if I try to run programs it over heats and shuts off plus I want the programs that are on it. Would the back up work for them?

 

[BFG-9000]

I would clean all the lint out of the Toshiba's fan and have two working laptops but that's just me.

 

[Scottray]

Generally, you need to reinstall the programs/software on the new laptop. This is because your new laptop is not going to know where additional files, libraries and setting are located on the old drive. Unfortunately, you can't just copy and paste programs from one drive to another. That's the purpose of an installer. It's it puts the executable program in a known location, modifies the registry so the OS knows the location and links up other dynamic libraries that the program needs to run.

 

[The Paladin]

get this case, slip drive into case, plug into laptop, there you have access to it, transfer data to new laptop then wipe old HDD out, then use it as a back up external hard drive for all your libraries on your new laptop

PS: I use 2 myself and they work wonderfully
HornetTek 2.5" Enclosure USB 3.1 http://www.frys.com/product/8554639?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

 

[Mac0816]

I would clean all the lint out of the Toshiba's fan and have two working laptops but that's just me.

Yea I did that plenty of times took the whole thing a part and cleaned it it's no the fan. This laptop is old had it over 6+ years

 

[Mac0816]

Generally, you need to reinstall the programs/software on the new laptop. This is because your new laptop is not going to know where additional files, libraries and setting are located on the old drive. Unfortunately, you can't just copy and paste programs from one drive to another. That's the purpose of an installer. It's it puts the executable program in a known location, modifies the registry so the OS knows the location and links up other dynamic libraries that the program needs to run.

Yeah I know all that basically I want to keep my old computer but only thing that I can really save is the harddrive and I want to use it the way it is without wiping it. Basically I want to be able to access the old harddrive and use it as a computer

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah I know all that basically I want to keep my old computer but only thing that I can really save is the harddrive and I want to use it the way it is without wiping it. Basically I want to be able to access the old harddrive and use it as a computer

Basically, this probably will not work.
The OS on the new laptop knows nothing about the applications that may live on the old drive.

Some of them may run, but a LOT of them won't run at all, or be very flakey.

 

[schwartzasher]

Just get an internal laptop hard drive to external hard drive case they all work and should allow you to access the files