Laptop Blues

[Timothy]

My laptap (Dell) finally gave in and went blue screen/black screen and cycles between the two.  It's old as hell so I don't care to fix it but if someone can tell me if I can recover whats on the hard drive, I'd appreciate it.  Otherwise, it's getting removed and destroyed.

thanks in advance.

Tim

Celeron processor with 512 of Dell RAMM, 20 Gig HD.  Nothing fancy, just a cheap notebook...

[Texas_Bryan]

Find out what kind of physical interface its running and buy an external USB enclosure for it.  Then you should be able to access your data, cost you about $15.

This one's dual interface.  Kind of a universal setup.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817388010

[Pathfinder]

Better yet, use it as a second drive in a new computer - works only if the new one is a desktop, not a laptop. And, it is assuming that the drive did not crash.

[Texas_Bryan]

Better yet, use it as a second drive in a new computer - works only if the new one is a desktop, not a laptop. And, it is assuming that the drive did not crash.

Unfortunately, running a 2.5" drive strait out of a desktop is abit hard to do.  No 2.5" brackets, interface is probably wrong, and the such.  Not to mention its only a 20GB.  I think the external is the way to go, you may even find yourself using it as big out dated flash drive, little bitty flash drives are past 100GB now though.  My favorite thing to do with old drives is just whipping them up against concrete walls.  Oh and don't buy a new Dell.  Unless you need data of the drive, I wouldn't save it at all, not worth the money.  Easy destruction method is a few seconds in the microwave by the way.

In the future start saving data to multiple hard drives on multiple machines, redundancy on data and access of.  Or you can do bi-weekly CD/DVD archiving.  Do something other than old ass laptop.

[Timothy]

Though I've grown up with Uni-Blabs and use them daily, I've also learned to HATE them.  I have another desktop I can slave too but don't know or care how to do it.  If there is no easy, english, simplistic way to do this without reading another tech-manual.  It's going to the shed and eventually, a 20 lb sledge will take care of the problem.

Yes, I'm an engineer of sorts but Bill Gates is the anti-christ as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the tips Bryan but I can afford to lose the information on this laptop.  If it ain't easy, it's toast..

 

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[shooter32]

a 20 lb sledge will take care of the problem.

Or your .45 

[Timothy]

Or your .45 

True.....rather pricey though...!

[TAB]

I've had good luck with dell over the years.  you can get a great laptop for less then 300 right now.

[Timothy]

I've had good luck with dell over the years.  you can get a great laptop for less then 300 right now.

I've already decided on a MAC....I've had enough of Windows op systems.

[Texas_Bryan]

I've already decided on a MAC....I've had enough of Windows op systems.

Good luck with that hippie boy.

Note the lack of a smiley face...

Windows Seven is really solid.  I'm running it on my three computers.


Alright!!!