You can pick up a USB/SATA adapter from Memory Express for around $30.
You could pull the hard drive out of the damaged laptop, and hook it up
to a desktop (or other laptop) with one of these adapters. Then you can
look at the drive just like any other USB memory stick and pull your
data off of it.
Assuming the drive itself isn't damaged. If the laptop was off when it
had it's hard impact the drive should have been parked and should
therefore be still useful. If it was spinning at the time of the
impact, then there are a lot of IF's involved (did the safeties kick in,
if not were the heads over a non critical part, are the electronics
damaged, etc.)
You might be able to simply transfer the drive to your replacement
laptop and have it boot up just like the old system. Ubuntu detects
hardware on boot and sets up the required drivers on the fly, rather
than only supporting the hardware there is drivers installed for. So
you could transfer the drive freely - assuming the drive itself is not
damaged.
HTH.
Shawn
On 12-10-09 01:12 PM, Jerry Rukavina wrote:
Hello Everyone,
My Ubuntu machine crashed (Toshiba Satelitte A200 ST2). I believe the HD is
still intact (SATA). The machine is non-functioning, won't turn on due to an
accidnet - a hard impact and the keyboard is busted. Can someone help me to
recover the HD data?
Thank you in advance.
Jerry
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