Recovering hard drive

kookooshortman55

kookooshortman55

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I can't get my laptop to start up. It starts for about 3 seconds and then shuts off. The fans spin but the hard drive doesn't. It doesn't post though, so I'm pretty sure this is a motherboard problem.

Is it possible to get the data off the laptop HDD onto another laptop or hard drive?
 
First unplug the laptop, Remove the battery and memory for 5 min. Then put it all back and power it on. See if that will allow it to boot up. Some times this happens. It happens evey now and then to one of my laptops. This normally fixes the problem, If this does not fix it, Post back and let us know.
 
kookooshortman55 said:
I can't get my laptop to start up. It starts for about 3 seconds and then shuts off. The fans spin but the hard drive doesn't. It doesn't post though, so I'm pretty sure this is a motherboard problem.

Is it possible to get the data off the laptop HDD onto another laptop or hard drive?
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Depending on whether this drive is sata or pata, you can hook it up to your desktop to recover data off of it. For sata it uses the same standard connectors as a desktop hard drive, whilst with pata you will need an adapter.
 
bomberboysk said:
Depending on whether this drive is sata or pata, you can hook it up to your desktop to recover data off of it. For sata it uses the same standard connectors as a desktop hard drive, whilst with pata you will need an adapter.
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That is some handy information right there, haha thanks. The laptop is only a year and a half old. It's the HP DV6000 series, there's been tons on people online that have had this problem, and HP can't fix it. If I can just recover that data that would be great. How would it recognize the drive? I heard you can just transfer hard drives from one computer to another because of the operating system on the laptop hard drive.
 
kookooshortman55 said:
I heard you can just transfer hard drives from one computer to another because of the operating system on the laptop hard drive.
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If that is meant to say "can't":

If you plug the laptop HDD drive in, your computer will still boot from the location specified in BIOS. So it will still boot up your normal operating system from the desktop HDD, and then your laptop HDD will be a drive in 'My Computer', and you'll be able to access it like any other drive.

Hope that helps, Doug.
 
Alright, yeah that was meant to say can't, good catch. Well HP said to send them the laptop, they're shipping a box out for repairing. If they send it back and it's still broken I'll give this a shot. Hopefully they'll send back the same hard drive hah
 
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