Save my old lap top

Ifdot · Oct 23, 2014

I have an older Dell laptop from 05ish? that has the dreaded blue screen and has had it for a few years now. I have been putting it off for long enough and need to see if I can get the data recovered. It has all my videos and pictures from deployments, basically my entire military career on it and I would like to save it. With the lap top I have an external hard drive that may or may not work, I don't know basically due to the fact I have an apple and it is not compatible.
Anyone here willing to see what they can do?

denimdan85 · Oct 23, 2014

I live kinda far from you in Carroll County but I work in Glen Burnie. I can take a look at what can be done for you.

Ifdot · Oct 23, 2014

I travel all over for work, Glen Burnie is easy!

Bafflingbs · Oct 23, 2014

Good luck ifdot.

t84a · Oct 23, 2014

Just pull the hard drive and get a reader from Best Buy.

Ifdot · Oct 23, 2014

Bafflingbs said:
Good luck ifdot.

Thanks!

t84a said:
Just pull the hard drive and get a reader from Best Buy.

Excuse me? :sad20:

not really up my alley on things I can confidently accomplish.

t84a · Oct 23, 2014

5 minute job.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/apricor...-red/1004959.p?id=1218207307519&skuId=1004959

ToBeFree · Oct 23, 2014

Ifdot said:
Thanks!

Excuse me? not really up my alley on things I can confidently accomplish.

You shoot a gun - you can do this! I have confidence in you young man.

-Mil-Surp-Phreak- · Oct 23, 2014

I can do the same thing for you over in MoCo if you ever find yourself this way. I have recovered several dead laptops info and personal pictures before, not too hard especially if I don't have to care about putting the laptop back together exactly the way it came to me

Traveler · Oct 23, 2014

I live in Anne Arundel, near Millersville. I have all the tools, and do IT and data recovery for a living. Bring good beer or ammo.

sxs · Oct 24, 2014

t84a said:
Just pull the hard drive and get a reader from Best Buy.

That was my thought. Even if the problem is the hard drive, it might just be the boot sectors or the Systems folder area. In fact, it might not be the hard drive at all.

Bafflingbs · Oct 24, 2014

Keep us posted. And once you get it fixed.
:needpics:

Tungsten · Oct 24, 2014

One standard piece of advice: If you have porn, illegal crap, selfies of you humping a goat, etc on your computer.
DO NOT EVER LEAVE IT WITH ANYONE TO RECOVER DATA.

All of the sick little perverts will copy it and upload it or share it with friends.
Not saying people here would do it but if you have stuff you dont want in the public eye then DTA (dont trust anybody) is the way to go.

Mini14tac · Oct 24, 2014

I would also like to hear how this works out. I just had what I believe was a hard drive crash on an older Dell laptop. It now will not boot stating that the hard drive is not found. It made a squealing noise when it failed making me believe it had a head crash! Just bought a new ASUS and would like to preserve some of the files.

Any ideas if this device might work?

rob · Oct 24, 2014

BamaBob said:
One standard piece of advice: If you have porn, illegal crap, selfies of you humping a goat, etc on your computer.
DO NOT EVER LEAVE IT WITH ANYONE TO RECOVER DATA.

All of the sick little perverts will copy it and upload it or share it with friends.
Not saying people here would do it but if you have stuff you dont want in the public eye then DTA (dont trust anybody) is the way to go.

Speak for yourself. If I help recover an MDS system and I find pics of you humping a goat, it's going the the EPIC funny pics thread! :lol2:

Rob

Sundazes · Oct 24, 2014

BSODs are normally software issues. The data should be recoverable. I will second the caution about your drive contents. If any thing like illegal porn is on it and you take somewhere commercial, chances are it will be reported.

Tungsten · Oct 24, 2014

rob said:
Speak for yourself. If I help recover an MDS system and I find pics of you humping a goat, it's going the the EPIC funny pics thread!

Rob

I can assure you I would never take pics of me doing such a thing. :innocent0

LoneRanger · Oct 24, 2014

The first thing I would do is remove the hard drive and re-install it. I have seen laptops where it was just a matter of reseating the hard drive to get the laptop to boot backup.

May or may not work but it only takes a couple of minutes to give it a try.

MDFF2008 · Oct 25, 2014

I live in Towson if your close. I fix computers all day.

pleasant1911 · Oct 25, 2014

Maybe you can just connect your broken screen laptop to a tv or a monitor using a the wire that fits, and then put everything into a flashdrive, and then download it to your itunes???

You can always youtube it

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