Ok, so I can't get my laptop to work, but as far as I know, the hard drive is still ok, and all my files are still on there. Anybody have any sensible ideas about how I could go about transferring or retrieving the files from it?
2007-01-07 19:07:03 · 13 answers · asked by edsephiroth 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
ok first locate the drive and remove it from the lap top. now send the lap top for repair or buy a new one.
presuming the drive is a standard 2.5" hard drive then you can get an external drive enclosure from https://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3V65
install your old drive in the enclosure and connect to any other computer. however if your files are marked as private then you may not be able to access them.
good luck.
2007-01-07 19:21:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buy an external drive caddy (2.5" probably, maybe smaller depending on your notebook). Insert the drive, connect the USB or 1394 connection to a new computer and you've got all your files...
The caddies are the same things the external drives come in - just with no drive (and thus much cheaper)... last one I bought cost me like $30 at an electronics store and that was years ago.
Done this a bunch of times - just need to make sure your drive's connectors match the caddies...
Oh and warning - in some cases pulling a drive can kill a notebook (missing screws anyone... lol) if its not truly dead yet.
Other options would be booting off CD just to see if the system is functional or do F8 during boot to go into safe mode (assuming Windows)...
More detail would be useful just to confirm the notebook is dead...
-dh
2007-01-07 19:14:24 · answer #2 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hook the drive up in another computer. You can do it temporarily if you want. Just lay it in bottom of case and hook data and power cable to it. Unless you have the same exact chipset on the computer you put the drive in you wont be able to boot into Windows with the drive but can grab your pics, tunes vids etc off it. External enclosures are cheap and you could put it in one yank the stuff you want off it onto a CD dvd or your C drive, then format the old drive and use it as a storage drive. Make sure you get the right enclosure for your drive(IDE SATA etc) and whatever interface you want.(firewire, eSATA or USB). Of course, it will only work if it isn't the hard drive that died. If thats the case you would have to have the data professionally retrieved which is astronomically expensive.
2016-05-23 08:34:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could remove the drive and add it (as an external drive - you'd need a drive case would be easiest) as another drive to your new pc/laptop. Then you could drag & drop the files onto your new piece of kit. Once done, you'd also now have an external drive (the cases can me easily bought ..... even off ebay) to back-up your data.
If this process is too faffy, you can take the laptop to your local IT guy & he'd be able to do it for you (probably using the same method-ish).
2007-01-07 19:12:02 · answer #4 · answered by nickthesurfer 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just pull the hard drive out of your laptop, you can go to the manufacter's site to get the "how to guide" to do it yourself.
Then you will need to buy a USB enclosure for (laptop) hard drives, they run for about 25 bucks.
You plug your hard drive to that device, and you plug the device to an open USB port on any other computer and it will read the hard drive as an external hard drive.
Then you copy the files to the other computer.
2007-01-07 19:09:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can Put that Hard drive into another laptop and use it like that, other than that, I have no Idea I save all my files on my Ipod and Yes I mean all of them
2007-01-07 19:09:50 · answer #6 · answered by theurbsoweit 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take it to a local pc repair shop. Stay away from the big names and look for the guy who does it for a living. He will have the tools to retrieve your personal files.
2007-01-07 19:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Place your hardrive in another laptop if possible to check.
If you simply need to recover data, you are going to have to run it as a slave drive somehow using a caddy if you can't put it directly into another laptop or if the laptop fails to read the files.
In that instance you will need software recovery tools.
Take your pick from below.
2007-01-07 19:36:00 · answer #8 · answered by bolton dave 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try to connect your hard disk as a slave on another system. Use the Windows in the other PC to access your hard disk & make backup. Then format & reinstall Windows on your hard disk...
2007-01-07 19:27:40 · answer #9 · answered by a6_na2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple... take out your old hard drive and put it into another PC and save all the data to a external hard drive or to data DVDs
2007-01-07 19:11:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋