Recently my 6 yr. old laptop died on me.
I ordered a new one from dell, but my old one had about 20gb. of music on it, I was wondering if there was a way I could get my info off the old laptop. I'm sure I can take it to a store, but they're trying to charge almost $200. Could I do it myself somehow?
PS.
It won't turn on or anything
2007-08-07 17:58:15 · 2 answers · asked by HopeToHelp 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
You can take the hard drive out and try hooking it up to another machine to see if it is accessible. Then just copy any files to the machine's primary drive, burn to cd/dvd, etc. If the drive is still spinning up but you can't see any files, you could always try your own recovery with free tools like dd, testdisk, photrec, etc.
BTW, I would charge about the same, if not more, for data transfer/recovery, so the store charge is about average.
2007-08-07 18:21:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but u can send it to a data recovery company and they caqn try to retireve ur data on it. it can cost newhere from $500 to $1000
2007-08-07 18:02:30 · answer #2 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋