My computer mother board is bad. I need to transfer all my information from the hard drive to a new computer. Is there a way to do this.

as long as the drive is working..not clicking or non responding.just pop in the hard drive and it will auto open in windows.or other os then drag and drop as needed. you can open "my computer" to see the new drive and letter. open both drives in two separate windows and move as needed.

Just take the hard drive out of your old computer and hook it up to another computer via a usb port with a device like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

Then when you have it hooked up to your new computer via the usb port just transfer the files you need from the old computers hard drive to the new computers hard drive in windows explorer..

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty
make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electic extensions or just replace them they are probably faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error hope this helps

Start by removing the battery completely, and plugging the power cord into the wall socket. If the power indicator light comes on at the converter on the cord, your power cord is fine. Then plug the power cord into the computer. If the computer starts up you know the power cord connection on the computer is not the problem. Now witrh the power cord plugged in install the battery if the needs charge light comes on you probably do need a new battery as the cells often do go dead after a period of time and wont hold a charge, this will cause the LCD screen to go black or gray, but NOT BLUE. Borrow a friends monitor and plug it into your computer as an external monitor and press the function key to toggle to external monitor. Now try to restart, if screen shows activity you can atleast check out your computer. You may want to test your connections andf then itry placing your hard drive into another similar computer and see if the same thing happens, if it does your hard drive may have a failure. You can transfer all the info from your hard drive to an external drive through a patch cable available online at circuit city for between $7-25. The two that are most useful are the CTG Laptop to IDE Hard drive adapter item C184-17705 and the Ultras USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA cable adapter item UL740112 depending on what type of hard drive connections you have. Once you transfer your information to an external you can try to restore your computer using the original system restore disk that came with the computer. Set to boot from disk and away you go... If this does not work you may have a bad hard drive or possibly the mother board. If the mother board is bad you may want to just keep the computer for spare parts as it might not be worth the cost of repairs. If it is the hard drive you can get good quality Hitachi Harddrives reasonable (for less than $90 for upto 600 GIGS on line again at circuit city without any shipping cost and will have it within a couple of days.
Hope this helps.

Check your memory sticks and CPU. Reset the motherboard.

Good luck
N Sabre

Nothing you can do except replace the motherboard or buy a new computer.
It might be cheaper to get a new computer, especially if your computer is more than a few years old.
You can transfer the hard drive, video card, the monitor etc. to the new computer if those components are OK.

Have you put in a CMOS Battery? Hard drive works?Any more information that was not in your first post?

RCF

Hey jockos,

If you're positive that it's only the motherboard on your first computer that's currently defective, you should have a number of options available to retrieve files from your hard drive.

Generally, the easiest way to do so is simply installing the hard drive into another computer. This should allow you to transfer files back and forth between the two installed drives freely, using a standard drag-and-drop method. Often step-by-step instructions on how to install a second hard drive can be found in your computer's owner's manual documentation, but may just as easily be found by looking for "how to install a second hard drive" using an online search engine.

Please keep in mind that once the hard drive has been installed onto another computer, it is strongly suggested that you only copy and transfer saved files such as word documents, spreadsheets, pictures and movies to the new drive. Transferring full programs and executable files manually may result in software conflicts/errors which may not be easily resolved.

Hope this helps you out.

Sincerely,
Aaron
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The hard drive does not have a fan unless you put one on it. The hard drive is inside the computer and had a company name on it such as Maxtor, Seagate, Toshiba etc.
Did you unplug the fan that stopped working? If the fan is your processor fan, it might have burned up your computer. I have seen the entire motherboard go bad on a computer, just because a fan stopped working.
What make and model computer is it? If it is a laptop, it might be damaged beyond repair. Let me know more information, and I will keep trying to help you get the problem resolved.