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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?
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:32 am to tiggah1981
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"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 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 7:51 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?
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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 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
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