They sell adapters that can hook a laptop sized hard drive to the ribbon cable of a PC. Make it a secondary slave disk on a knowm good PC, preferably on a network, boot up the PC, mount the secondary disk under some /tmp mount point, then tar or cp to a backup area.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Roger H. Goun wrote: > What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead > laptop? > > I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start. > I've been through all the usual troubleshooting steps. It would cost > almost $100 just to get a repair quote from Sony's service department, > and a minimum of $300 to fix it. It's probably not worth it. > > However, there are some files on its hard drive that I'd like to > retrieve, as it had been a few days since it was backed up. If this > were a desktop system I'd just pull the hard drive and plug it into > something compatible as a secondary drive. How would you do it with a > laptop? > > Thanks. > > -- Roger > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
