Help! Data recovery!!

[riddick]

I have a Dell Latitude Laptop that crapped out on me. Dell told me that it was the HD and that they would send me a new one but I have no way to get my data off. There is a company that want to charge me like 2300$!! Any input on a way to get this data off?? Here is the error

Windows could not start missing
\windows\system32\config\system

HELP!!!

 

[apj101]

have you tried
a) Booting to safe mode
b) Repairing windows
c) Boot to another hard drive and simply coping the data off??
d) Using the windows repair console on the (i assume xp) cd

 

[riddick]

have you tried
a) Booting to safe mode
b) Repairing windows
c) Boot to another hard drive and simply coping the data off??
d) Using the windows repair console on the (i assume xp) cd

a) it will not even let me into the safe mode option
b) I tried that but didnt seam to work
c) I only have onbe HD can I hook it to a regular PC?
d) I booted to this but really have no clue what it is...

Thank bro!

 

[dolphin]

a) it will not even let me into the safe mode option
b) I tried that but didnt seam to work
c) I only have onbe HD can I hook it to a regular PC?
d) I booted to this but really have no clue what it is...

Thank bro!

Hi.

c)Usually, yes. please get a small case for 2,5" disk that
you can connect to another PC via a USB port, and then
hopefully, you can backup some data. If this does not work,
you can try two other "tricks".
Get your disk connected to another PC as mentionned above and
1.try using Winternals AdminPak
2.try using Ontrack Easyrecovery professional

HTH