My first Toshiba Satellite laptop won’t boot. The power light & fan switch on but the screen stays blank. It was my only computer & I didn’t have time to wait for it to be serviced & I thought it might be the motherboard, so I bought another. They don’t make that model anymore, so I bought a low-end new Satellite, but it has Windows Vista. Can I get the XP from the old laptop? If I can do that, can I put the old hard drive in the new comp to retrieve the programs that were installed? Both computers have 2 512m ram, so how do I accomplish getting the info from the old computer? It seems to make sense to me that I can do this, but I’m afraid of frying the new laptop so I need the advice of people who really know what they’re doing. Plus, do you have any idea what might be wrong with the original laptop? Are there any simple ways for me to try to diagnose the problem myself? Is there diagnostic software available so that I could connect the new to the old & use it to diagnose the problem?
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You cannot install the old drive in the new computer, and the reason being, the computers are different so they will use different drivers. If you change the hard drive the computer will not boot.
There are programs that may diagnose the problems with the old computer, but most are pretty technical, and it depends what is wrong with it. If you can get into the BIOS and have that display, then it can be diagnosed, if not, then it will require a professional.
You could try accessing your old drive via a USB external drive enclosure, that would allow you to retrieve your data and files from the old drive. The OS that is on the old drive would not work with your new computer as it is set up with the software and drivers for your defunct laptop