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I have three or four dead laptops in the closet, one of my girls is rough on cars ,the other on computers and phones. I need a good cheap device so I can yank out the hard drives and plug them into my computer and get their pictures back. Any recommendations?
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This will work:
...that appears to be SATA only. Some of these laptops may have IDE drives.
If they do boot up, you can place the drive in an external box and connect via USB. Such a box can be had from Fry's, etc. (see below).
If they don't boot up, I was TOLD you can do that, but I literally just tried this last week and it didn't work. The drive would not show the files...it wanted me to format the drive, which would of course erase all the data. What you CAN do is insert a copy of Puppy Linux (puppylinux.org) into the CD drive, boot up in RAM, and then look at the files. That worked for me.
I need to get this done. Luckily I just have one!
Steve
Probably the easiest is to purchase a external USB adaptor like the one shown below.
In most cases if one has a second desktop computer one can connect the drive to a spare SATA port and the power to a spare power plug and power it up. I have a whole box of the necessary cables that I have accumulated over the years. The hardest part of the process will be removing the drive from the laptop, at least if one has chubby fingers and aged eyes.
It may be that the drive is damaged or the data on it has been corrupted. In that event, one may have to invoke specialized tools. For example if the disk electronics or head have failed but not the disk surface, one can pay big bugs to a data recovery firm who will disassemble the drive in a clean room and mount the platter into a different, working drive.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Freeware Data Recovery,
I have 3 dead ext hard drives with tons of music and movies that I'd love to transfer over.
may the bridges I burn light the way...
...on what caused the HD problem.
An external USB drive is usually just an ordinary hard drive enclosed in a case that includes a bit of USB circuitry and a connector to the drive.
If that USB circuitry is bad, but the HD OK, then the device would help.
If the drive itself is bad, this device won't get you any further along than when the HD was in its case.
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Regards,
Geoff
If the LT won't boot, the cables no work? Right? How dead is "dead?" If the low level format info is bad... I'd think that you'd have trouble getting that info off those drives, without low-level machine-language recovery software.
My daughter always seems to find a way to ruin the plug at the computer , so Except for maybe one laptop they just will not power up.
Is she is the one that Apple designed that magnetic connection for? There are several units now that induction charge. It was an option for the short lived HP TouchPad. I know Dell made laptop with induction charging but I don't know if they have a current model.
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