My Dell laptop broke today and it seems it's a software error. Before I do a full reset to factory settings, I want to retrieve some data. Most of my stuff is backed up but there are recent files from this week that I want to access. How can I do this without calling in technicians? I have another computer I could hook it up to and I don't really want to unscrew the interface, so a lead or something would be best. Any help would be appreciated.
2007-02-22 05:18:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Just to add - thanks for the response - I can't even use Safe Mode. I can't access anything from the computer at all.
2007-02-22 05:31:03 · update #1
I can't get into safe mode or windows or anything, so I can't do a system restore or back up anything on disc. After the computer starts it goes straight to an error screen.
2007-02-22 06:05:58 · update #2
Hi. Try booting in safe mode (press F8 repeatedly while booting). Then maybe you could copy the files you want to a CD-R. You really have to have the drive from the broken machine hooked up as a Slave drive in the working machine if this doesn't work.
2007-02-22 05:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you insert your backup disk from dell you should have the option of repairing without a format. If so you should lose nothing, and only windows problems will be repaired.
If your computer has Windows XP installed try this.
Startup in safe mode, by tapping the F8 key at fireup, and selecting start in safe mode, from there you can do a system restore back to a date when it was working fine. With system restore you will not lose your files.
To use system restore in safe mode do this:
1) go to start
2) go to programs
3) go to accessories
4) go to system tools
5) go to system restore
in system restore, choose a date from the highlighted ones when your compter was working fine and do the restore.
2007-02-22 05:39:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can go to best buy or circuit city and they sell a thing that looks like a external harddrive but it extracts all your data from you harddrive and and stores it into the external harddrive then once its done extracting everything that was on your comptuer is now in the external drive so then once you fix your computer just plug it back into your computer and upload all your data into it i think it cost like $50-$70
good luck
2007-02-22 05:47:26 · answer #3 · answered by thatguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.chriswagoner.com
2007-02-22 05:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by cwcrash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋