Documents on my Laptop

[goldman810]

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.

Thanks,

Matt

 

[dznutz]

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

 

[porterjw]

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.