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02-06-2008, 11:47 PM
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Documents on my Laptop
I have documents on my laptop that I need to pull off. However, whenever I try to start the computer up it says that the operating system can't be found. So I am unable to access the documents that are on the hard drive. I really don;t use the computer anymore but need to pull the files off the drive. Any ideas.
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02-07-2008, 05:51 AM
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if you have the computer's OS cd you can use the "recovery" option
if your computer has a recovery console built in you can use that to recover the OS you can take the laptop's hd out and make an external hd
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02-07-2008, 03:56 PM
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To elaborate on the third option dznutz mentioned...
You can buy a 2.5 to 3.5 HDD adapter. Simple plug one end into the Laptop HDD, and the other end into a desktop IDE cable and you can access the drive from your desktop.
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