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purekorea
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States47 Posts
April 10 2009 05:07 GMT
#1
Recently my laptop fully crapped out on me. Before my laptop's screen was broken which was fine since I just hooked it up to a separate monitor, but yesterday it just shut down on me (in the middle of usage) when I try to turn it back on it just makes weird noises and nothing comes up on the screen.

I figure this just means I need a new laptop, but issue is if there is any way to save the data on my hard disks.


Could I just take the hard disk out and plug it into a desktop and retrieve the data or would that cause even more problems?


EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2801 Posts
April 10 2009 05:13 GMT
#2
hard drives are i/o devices

how would taking them out be bad?
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-10 05:20:23
April 10 2009 05:19 GMT
#3
you can just rip apart your old laptop retrieve the HDD and shove it into an external enclosure i'm sure your local pc store has people nice enough to tell you what internal enclosure you would need or even assemble it for you can then you can use your old hdd as a portable storage drive. This all assumes your laptop wasn't broken because your hdd was fucked up.

This is something I've had to do for several friends and my gf
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Sirakor
Profile Joined April 2003
Great Britain455 Posts
April 10 2009 06:34 GMT
#4
Your laptop's been on the limb for while now, to the point that the screen is totally buggered, and you still didn't deem it a good idea to make a backup of the data on the disk???!

But yeah, you can take it out and put it into an external HD case which connects to another comp by USB for example ...
Doso
Profile Joined March 2008
Germany769 Posts
April 10 2009 07:09 GMT
#5
That is of course, that it's not the hard disk that is making those noises :p
stafu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1196 Posts
April 10 2009 10:20 GMT
#6
Take a look at this link: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5160538.html

(Extracting data from a dead laptop with a laptop hard drive adapter)
VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
April 10 2009 10:46 GMT
#7
On April 10 2009 16:09 Doso wrote:
That is of course, that it's not the hard disk that is making those noises :p


That's what I was thinking.

Weird noises tend to come from moving parts. Unless you had a solid state drive in your laptop, it's like that your hard drive was what was making noises.
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purekorea
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States47 Posts
April 13 2009 12:20 GMT
#8
I think it was my CD player making the noises and I think something in my motherboard is the problem or at least I hope it is. Thanks for the info I'll try for the enclosure thing. Are laptop HD different from desktop ones?

I've been planning a backup session I just didn't think it would completely give out so soon.
VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
April 13 2009 12:31 GMT
#9
On April 13 2009 21:20 purekorea wrote:
I think it was my CD player making the noises and I think something in my motherboard is the problem or at least I hope it is. Thanks for the info I'll try for the enclosure thing. Are laptop HD different from desktop ones?

I've been planning a backup session I just didn't think it would completely give out so soon.


Laptop hard drives are smaller, being 2.5" rather than the standard 3.5" for desktop hard drives. Newer laptops are using solid state drives over standard hard disk drives for various reasons.

That said, if you look up what laptop you have on the manufacturer's website, you can find out what type of hard drive you have (HDD or SSD), and find an enclosure accordingly. Enclosures exist for all standard consumer hard drives.
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purekorea
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States47 Posts
April 19 2009 13:52 GMT
#10
k thanks
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