Thank you. Shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
