Best Buy here sells (depending on the type of drive) a box that you can plug a drive into and USB into another computer to copy data.
On May 17, 2013, at 6:44 PM, [email protected] wrote: > When vehicles go dead, its usually a cable gone bad. The artform is finding > the cable. The hot day and 100 degree temps did not help your situation. > Glad to read that you made it home. > Best Wishes > > In a message dated 5/17/2013 5:28:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > Coming home from the doctor and my van died, just turned off. Tried starting > it, but it would not start back up, just sounded like it was out of gas. I > know it had a 1/4 tank and it was not over heating. I was 4 miles from home, > thinking of driving home in my chair, but it was over 100 outside. My mother > was driving, and she could not walk that far. Of all days I did not bring my > phone. We were still part in the street, in a bike lane. We saw a garage of > some kind around the corner so I was about to get out when a cop pulled up. > She was going to call my insurance road side service when a 2nd cop pulled > up. They thought maybe after the tow truck took my van, thy could drive my > mother and follow me. There is a wheelchair taxi around here, but often long > wait times. Then the 2nd cop says, I can just push you home. Luckily it was a > mostly a straight road home. So the first cop got in my van to steer and the > 2nd cop pushed my van from his car (He had a nice padded push bar on the > front of his car.) > > Bad week, earlier this week the #%$#@# cat peed on top of my laptop and it > fried it up. Totally dead. Do you know if I can take out the hard drive and > get something to plug it into a USB of a new computer? > > Thanks, > Greg
