Any Advice Appreciated..

[SNOWY]

My laptop has died. (Hewlett Packard) The hard drive is ok apparently. How can I retreive the data off it? (I haven't backed up recently.. Yeah I know)

Will I be able to take the hard drive out of another laptop & plug mine in? Are there any recovery devices available on the market?

Any advice much appreciated.

[JPTCount]

should be able to so long as all the hardware is roughly the same.

 

if not buy a cheap HDD reader for about £10/20, and copy everything u want off it before it breaks lol

[ecuk268]

Plugging it into another laptop could give problems if it's not the same model as there will be hardware differences.

 

As the previous poster has said, you can buy a caddie that you can put your drive into and it has a USB connection to a working machine where you should be able to see your drive and extract any files.

[Minty]

Either that or connect it up to a spare SATA connector (assuming that is what it is) in a Desktop machine and copy stuff off of it that way.

[SNOWY]

Thanks for the advice fella's. I bought a caddie set up that has enabled me to access my files. Had a bit of fun sorting out "permissions" to access the files registered against different users but got there now. I'll back up regularly from now on. I am keeping the old laptop & intend to try to repair it (as a bit of a project) I've got nothing to lose & I might learn something.