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rowan · 08-17-2008, 11:15 PM

Do you have a friend or acquaintance who is able to remove/swap the HD into another computer and copy its contents? You may have better luck there since it's not trying to boot the operating system from the drive (which could cause problems both with a developing mechanical fault and virus infected applications)

If it's a reasonably modern drive then it's probably SATA so it can plug straight into the SATA port of a desktop computer. If it's a bit older then it's probably IDE, which uses a different connector for laptop sized drives. You can buy a simple adapter for this.

08-17-2008, 11:15 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Do you have a friend or acquaintance who is able to remove/swap the HD into another computer and copy its contents? You may have better luck there since it's not trying to boot the operating system from the drive (which could cause problems both with a developing mechanical fault and virus infected applications) If it's a reasonably modern drive then it's probably SATA so it can plug straight into the SATA port of a desktop computer. If it's a bit older then it's probably IDE, which uses a different connector for laptop sized drives. You can buy a simple adapter for this.