Motherboard died- how to get my files?

Question

My motherboard on my Dell Notebook has died. Is there anyway to get my docs & pics off the computer w/out buying a new motherboard? If so, How??

Answer 1

Your best bet is to take it to a computer shop. They can then connect your hard drive in your laptop and they can move any n ecessary files to a different media (CD, Flash Drive etc)

Answer 2

You can take the hard drive out of the notebook and put it in a different notebook and boot up in SAFE mode so you don't get a million hardware warnings. Then you can copy off your files. Then, take the hard drive out and hold onto it.

Answer 3

You can get the files off the hard drive by hooking your hard drive up to another computer and then saving them to a disk, etc.

Your computer is pretty worthless without the motherboard. Save your hard drive and RAM for your new computer.

Answer 4

Yes, take the hard drive out of the computer. Find a similar
Dell Laptop and swap hard drives temporarily.

Answer 5

You'll have to remove the hard drive and connect it to another PC. Shouldn't be much of a problem. You might have to get an appropriate connector cable to do it though.

Answer 6

you will need to remove your harddrive (since that is where your data is actually stored) and add it to a different machine (as a 2nd drive, not as the primary drive) and then copy and paste your files off etc...

It's also a good idea to once a month burn your files onto a DVDR or CDR..

Answer 7

You can get an adapter to move the files from the hard drive to antoher system or cd/dvd.

Something like this:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=HDD

Answer 8

take the laptop to a computer repair store
ask them to take the hard drive out
they can put your pics on a disc for you.

Answer 9

call dell.