Data retrieval from dead laptop

Chris Blake cblake at cswcasa.com
Wed Jun 18 09:48:12 EDT 2003


> What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
> laptop?

Depends on how it died.

If it was non-hard drive related, the hard drive is IDE and, with a cheap
adapter, you can plug it in as a slave drive in any desktop to move data
over.

If the drive is the cause of the PC dying, you'd either have to send it to a
data-recovery company (read: expensive), or hook it up as a slave drive and
see if you could get some of the data off.  If it was the cause, it probably
won't even spin up, so the data-recovery folks may be the only option.

Chris Blake



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