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Robin
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30th Oct 07 at 21:26   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The screen is fucked, so I can't even copy them to CDs, can I connect the old HDD to my new laptop somehow to get them?
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30th Oct 07 at 21:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
can you remove the hdd and connect it to some form of docking cradle?
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30th Oct 07 at 21:39   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I can remove the hard drive, just done it now.
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30th Oct 07 at 21:43   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
some laptop hardrives will connect straight into a PC IDE cable and windows will pick it up, otherwise youl need a laptop hdd usb adaptor off ebay
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Get an enclosure for it from ebay, £10 odd, then hook it up to the new laptop, and transfer everything on to it.
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or if you have an external usb memory source, ie usb hardrive, or usb memory stick, download knoppix, with the laptop hdd in your new laptop, you should be able to boot into knoppix off a cd, read the data and copy it onto the memory stick
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
or if you have an external usb memory source, ie usb hardrive, or usb memory stick, download knoppix, with the laptop hdd in your new laptop, you should be able to boot into knoppix off a cd, read the data and copy it onto the memory stick


That then depends If it tries to boot from the HDD first, rather than the CD, if not hes going to have to go into the BIOS, which he couldnt really do with a fucked screen?
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30th Oct 07 at 21:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I use these at work for recovering laptop data.

Ebay Link

Remove laptop HDD (2.5")
Find spare IDE cable and plug into PC

Boot up as normal and take off all your HDD.

Or you could plug a monitor into back of your laptop and use it that way, copy it to an external HDD.

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im talking about doing it on his new laptop
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Can I not just get a cable which plugs from this



to USB so I can run it as an external hard drive for about half an hour before binning it?
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yeah off ebay
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Ace, what's that plug pattern? IDE?
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-5-USB-2-0-1-1-Laptop-Hard-Drive-Case-Enclosure-IBM_W0QQitemZ140173129269QQihZ004QQcategoryZ86758QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

edit: p.s send it me when your done

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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Ace, what's that plug pattern? IDE?
2.5" IDE. Though it could be SATA if your laptop is newish.

 
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