"Yandos" <fakemail@fakeisp.com> wrote in message
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> On 24.11.2005 6:16, LoriNTroy wrote:
> > Help!! I only know enough to be dangerous. My old Dell laptop is
having
> > spasms...will only sign on to the Windows XP "loading"page and go no
further.
> > Is there any way I can hook a USB cable up between the lap top and my
desk
> > top and copy the C drive, or at least some folders FROM the C drive?
There
> > are somethings I would like to recover, but not for the $500 price the
data
> > recovery company wants!!
> >
> > thanks
>
> I have had one dead notebook drive. if everything fails, you may yet try
> this: (it was like a mirecle, helped me, and i got all my data back!)
>
> 1. buy a coverter from notebook harddisk to IDE (it costs about $10 or
> so, but if you tell them you will buy another harddrive from them after,
> they might borrow you the adapter for free of charge
> 2. connect the notebook hardrive to extra IDE cable, it should be
> detected on boot by bios and then you shoud see it as another letter in
> windows explorer normally without any drivers.
> 3. if bios (and window also then) will fail to detect the harddrive, be
> sure you have set in bios the AUTO option for secondary IDE (or where
> you are going to connect it)
> 4. if it won't help, place the harddisk to a freezer for 15 minutes or
> so (no, i'm not kidding!) and then connect to ide again. now you should
> be lucky. hurry up, because as temperature raises, the harddisk becomes
> unreadable once again, so maybe you will have to repeat that freezer
> trick more times before you will be able to copy everything
>
> Good luck,
> Y.

While the $10.00 cable converter costs only half as much as a USB
case, the OP needs to be aware that he must use it with extreme
caution. If he connects it back to front then he will fry his laptop
disk. This problem does not exist with the USB case.