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Re: Recover Laptop Data [Computers]

Laptop AC Adapter — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:10:26 -0000

Great tip :) It's such a pain if your adapter dies and you can't wait to access your data from your laptop until you can find a new one!

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iPod — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:39:23 -0000

Thanks for this. Recently my cousin spilt beer on his father's laptop. This method may just come in handy!

John

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sbspalding — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:17:14 -0000

This is really excellent advice, and anyone who is jumping into data
recovery (especially in less than simple cases) would do well to heed it.

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Mark Sear — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:13:21 -0000

This is one approach but needs to be done with care. It is easy to damage a disk when removing it and fitting it into another enclosure, and if the actual problem is hardware related it is not going to help.
There is also the risk that repeated attempts to access data from a disk where the problem is down to internal damage could be making the situation worse, in fact unrecoverable.
It is worth getting advice from someone who understands how hard disks work and who might be able to determine the problem from your description of the symptoms. I work for a data recovery company, I can assure you that a recovery when there is a hardware or serious logical problem will cost a lot more than $100, but any recovery company who takes money when there is not really an issue is not playing fair.
Of course keeping a backup is the best option.

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Sanjeev Mehra — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:02:06 -0000

Nice trick , it would come in handy most of the times but the only issue is people should be able to remove the hard drive and attach the USB port to a working computer properly.

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Ps3 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:53:55 -0000

Really useful thanks
But how about jsut keeping a back up on a simpletech drive o somehtign liek that :P

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sbspalding — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:35:20 -0000

Absolutely, great additions.

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Atlanta PC Repair Guy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:31:26 -0000

Make sure you get the enclosure that can handle your drive. Keep in mind there are different connectors. IDE, Ultra ATA, Serial ATA, Parallel ATA. They actually sell external cases that will handle all 3, they cost around $20 at specialty stores.

Keep in mind, now you have an external hard drive, so you can use that hard drive to back up data, etc.

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aaron — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:55:51 -0000

An HD enclosure saved my life, basically. Good post.

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Used Cheap Laptops — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:58:45 -0000

This looks great, too bad I was one of the people that spent the $100 a couple of months ago. Glad I found this blog, will subscribe.
Thanks
JR

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Jolin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:43:44 -0000

Are you kidding us?

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TigerTom — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:10:00 -0000

It's the era of disposable everything.

This is a good idea. There are lots of these little external hard-drive caddies available very cheaply, whereas hands-on help from a technician can be very expensive.

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Maggy Young — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:58:15 -0000

When the harddrive is damaged it should make clunking sounds on reboot. If no clunk, it should be ok.

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Christian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:54:27 -0000

This is exactly what I've been planning to do since December, when the tech people out here in Mongolia told me I'd have to take my laptop to Moscow to repair it (they said even Beijing doesn't have the equipment to fix a motherboard broken in the particular way mine is...).

It just seemed like common sense to me, but I guess it might not to everyone.

Re: Recover Laptop Data [Computers]

sbspalding — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:42:44 -0000

It should work unless the hard drive itself is damaged

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myrtle_beach_real_estate — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:07:33 -0000

Will this work even if the laptop see's no drive? I got the blue screen of death and on reboot it can not find a drive... Thanks

Re: Recover Laptop Data [Computers]

greggmarshall — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:23:38 -0000

I had collected a number of cases to do what you describe (and to use hard drives like supersized floppy disks for backups), then switched to a $10 USB to IDE/SATA cable adapter I found. It's more flexible, especially for "one of" uses of a drive like you describe.

Here's one like what I have:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&ca...