Sorry if this is in the wrong thread, this is my first time here.
I have two HP laptops. One, whose screen is broken, is an HP G7-2323dx — this is the computer I’ve been using, and after the screen and bottom casing broke I simply hooked it up to a monitor via an HMDI cable (inconvenient but it worked fine). The G7 is running Windows 10, and I used it without issues until this morning. The other, an older one I stopped using because the hard drive died, is an HP G72-227WM. The G72 was running Windows 7 when the hard drive actually worked.
It didn’t occur to me until last night that I could simple swap over the hard drive from the computer I currently use, over to the computer that I don’t use. So that’s precisely what I did this morning.
I figured I’d be able to boot it up as normal, but apparently not as I get the message “No Bootable Device”. I’m not extremely tech savvy, but I know I can completely move all the internals of the first laptop over into the second laptop and it’d theoretically work, since it’s essentially just changing the casing of the laptop. I’d really like to avoid that grunt work, though, so how would I go about moving beyond the error message I’m receiving?
One is to connect the hard drive via a usb adapter to a working computer, and then you can access its contents. Then copy all your files to dvd at least. If possible another external hard drive too is nice(r). Check the copies are accessible.
Other approach. Download and burn to a dvd the ubuntu ISO – ubuntu.com. Ubuntu is a free Linux variant.. With the drive installed in a computer, boot that computer with the ubuntu dvd. It will load into RAM only,unless you tell it to install to the current hard drive – which do not.
It will boot etc. to a typical desktop, and then you can access the hard drive – now just a resource for ubuntu; and again copy files to dvd as above.
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