How do I move software from broken laptop to new one?

Unfortunately my laptop is broken and I had to buy a new one, but I need software from the old laptop on the new one. How can I drag the software over? Unfortunately I no longer have the installation code and therefore can't download it again…

is there a possibility?

How broken is that part? The installation data is mostly in the registry, but I don't know how to read the registry of a Windows without the Windows running. There are certain tools for.

Unfortunately I no longer have the installation code and therefore can't download it again…

Connect the old hard drive to your new notebook via USB
Download and install the https://www.heise.de/...nder-36531 program
Read out the hard drives with the tool and note down the product key
Download and install software
Activate the software with the read product key

If you have music or pictures on it, for example, you can unscrew the small flap on the bottom of the laptop and most likely there will be the hard drive. You can then connect this hard drive to a PC and drag the files onto a USB stick. Alternatively, you can simply order an adapter on the Internet and connect it to the old hard drive and your new laptop. The easiest thing would be if your laptop has space for 2 hard drives, then you can simply put the old one in it.

ATTENTION: If the old laptop was destroyed by a virus, you should be very careful.

Ah sorry, I think I misunderstood the question

You open your PC and build everything from RAM and hard drive

Then you connect the hard drive with a SATA reader to your new PC with USB then you select the USB Hard Drive in Boot Manager and boot it

Then you let down Key Finder (any product key selection program)

Then you enter this code on your new laptop

If something does not work, I would be happy to help you and trust you, nothing can actually happen

Stay healthy

Thank you, then I order the adapter and as soon as I'm ready I will tell you again whether I have made it. Mega dear of you, Thanks. Stay healthy too!

It is hardly possible without an installation code, because during the installation, information is also written into the registry, if you simply copy the software from hard disk to hard disk, this will not happen and the software will probably not be able to run.

But to copy data from one computer to another it usually makes sense to buy a docking station or a USB adapter to Sata.

https://www.amazon.de/...07GGKQF1L/

You remove the hard drive / SSD from the old noteboom (as long as it is a SATA SSD / HDD). Then plug this into the docking station, connect it to your new notebook and your old HDD / SSD should be recognized as a new drive. You then have to copy the data accordingly.

This works quite well with data such as pictures / music and videos.

But there's hardly a chance with programs, since information is still stored in the Windows settings.

Therefore, you should always secure programs including the activation code externally.

How can I secure programs and code externally?

When you buy the software.

I print the email with the product keys as a PDF file and save it.

Then I download the software installation files and save them

I then burn the installation file and the PDF file with the product key (serial number) together on a CD / DVD so that I have the files if a computer breaks down.

But in your case that's too late.

As others wrote, if you are lucky you can search the registry file of your old computer for the serial number, but it is difficult to do this without knowing exactly what you are looking for.

If, like me, you do not regularly delete your mailbox on the servers (I have left the important emails on the servers for years), you could also search your mailbox for the license (if it was sent by email).

The installation file could then also be found in the old download folder on your old hard drive (if you do not delete this folder regularly).

I'm more of a hunter-gatherer with something and rarely delete such things from the hard drives and servers, that's something like a double backup against the burned disk that I put away.

Use Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
Should he not find it: Then go to Help in CS6 and then System Information

If there's only a 20 digit figure then deactivate this PC

call support. They will surely have your data there and will be happy to tell you your serial number.

https://www.easeus.de/daten-uebertragen-software/pctrans-free.html

Or you use this program (just have to try it out)