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Retrieving pictures from damaged laptop
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:27 am
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:27 am
The damaged laptop displays message "no hard drive found" during power up. I know absolutely nothing about troubleshooting these type of issues and was wondering what I can do, if anything, to retrieve pictures of my daughter.
Any help?
Any help?
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Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:32 am to tiggah1981
quote:
"no hard drive found"
Open it up and try and reseat the hard drive then boot it up.
if the HDD crashed you could be fricked
honestly just take it to a tech shop
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:50 am to StraightCashHomey21
I did try reseating it, but received same message
My line of thinking was to plug an external hard drive to it hoping it resolve the problem...
I'm guessing that's not going to help
My line of thinking was to plug an external hard drive to it hoping it resolve the problem...
I'm guessing that's not going to help
This post was edited on 1/5/15 at 6:50 am
Posted on 1/5/15 at 7:04 am to tiggah1981
You can buy a usb adaptor for the hard drive to hook it up to a different computer. You would likely need a sata to usb one. They are pretty inexpensive, $30 or so. If you hear any clicking noises, the drive is toast and you would need to have a data recovery company retrieve the data. We're a Drivesavers partner. Expensive but the best in the industry.
The other thing you can try to do is boot to a usb flash drive with Linux on it and see if Linux sees the other hard drive.
The other thing you can try to do is boot to a usb flash drive with Linux on it and see if Linux sees the other hard drive.
Posted on 1/5/15 at 7:30 am to tiggah1981
quote:
I did try reseating it, but received same message
My line of thinking was to plug an external hard drive to it hoping it resolve the problem...
I'm guessing that's not going to help
is this the hard drive the machines OS is on?
If so and its done, just take it to a professional for data recovery.
This post was edited on 1/5/15 at 7:32 am
Posted on 1/5/15 at 7:51 am to tiggah1981
If the HDD is shot and you can't get to it using Windows there is a way to get your data using Ubuntu. I had to do it once on an HDD I had that failed.
LINK
ETA: Is the HDD clicking when you turn on the PC?
LINK
ETA: Is the HDD clicking when you turn on the PC?
This post was edited on 1/5/15 at 7:54 am
Posted on 1/5/15 at 7:52 am to StraightCashHomey21
quote:
just take it to a professional for data recovery.
Send it to me and I will do it for half of the $500 minimum they are going to charge you.
Posted on 1/5/15 at 8:53 am to tiggah1981
Feel your pain. After having gone thru this with some irreplaceable pictures being lost, I now Carbonite and don't think twice about the $59
Posted on 1/5/15 at 10:27 am to stout
No clicking sound on the HDD. I'll give Ubuntu a look...looks dummy proof...hopefully
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