My motherboard is toasted

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vince4953529

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My laptop is completely dead and I cannot even turn it on. So I left it there and had my power supply cable still plugged in. And after about only 30-40 minutes my laptop is scorching hot. So I realized maybe the cooling system failed and I didn't know, so the motherboard was then overheated and crashed.
So I know the data in my hard drive is probably completely lost but I still had the faint hope that maybe somehow there's a way to recover the data. I had a lot of important data stored there and can't really afford to lose them. So my question is there any way to recover data lost due to a potential overheated motherboard?

thanks Vince
 
HDD and mobo are completely seperate. You can remove the HDD and turn it into a slave on another machine (adapter required) and pull your data off it.
 
Laptop hard drivesare exactly the same as laptop ones, just that laptop ones are smaller, a cable adapter thingy transforms a standard IDE cabel into one that will fit a laptop harddrive. Connect it to you desktop and there you go.
 
My wifes laptop recently fried to I bought one of those USB drive enclosures off of newegg and put her laptop drive in it.
 
hi, thanks for the replies. Now I took out the hard drive and hooked it into another laptop. The hard drive booted up fine (with the help of a boot disk since there's some slight problems booting up without one). So I can only see my files under DOS, not Windows.
My hard drive was partitioned into a C: and a D:, but now I can only read D: and cannot read C:. and since most of the important stuff are located on C:, I don't why my C: drive doesn't show. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
 
So I know the data in my hard drive is probably completely lost but I still had the faint hope that maybe somehow there's a way to recover the data. I had a lot of important data stored there and can't really afford to lose them. So my question is there any way to recover data lost due to a potential overheated motherboard?
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While its possible yer data got scrambled along with the mobo ...its highly unlikely ...

You'll probbly need to get one of these to connect the laptop drive to a normal PC but yeah... you can recover your data

Laptop hard drivesare exactly the same as laptop ones, just that laptop ones are smaller, a cable adapter thingy transforms a standard IDE cabel into one that will fit a laptop harddrive
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Well then they arent exactly the same now are they ;)

My hard drive was partitioned into a C: and a D:, but now I can only read D: and cannot read C:. and since most of the important stuff are located on C:, I don't why my C: drive doesn't show. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
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Sounds like you'll need an NTFS capable boot disc
http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm
 
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