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because the computer can't read the CDs. I keep getting the abort/retry/fail message. Is it a lost cause? I know I can take it to a professional and have them try to retrieve files, but is there a way I can hook up its hard drive to another computer and try to pull files? I have a floppy drive for it that swaps with the CD drive but I don't have a boot disk.
What happened is I tried to shut down before the Thanksgiving holiday and the computer didn't completely shut down. When I came back 4 days later it was stuck in a not-yet-shutdown state. Luckily I didn't lose too much if it's gone, but there may be some files that I want. Thank God I bought an external hard drive and had backed up the laptop in February and most of my working files are on a jump drive.
Any help is appreciated in advance,
Atul
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Posts in this Thread:
- Laptop hard drive crashed, can't use restore CDs..., Caarma , Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:33:12 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Laptop hard drive crashed, can't use restore CDs..., Dean-, Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:02:39
- Re: Laptop hard drive crashed, can't use restore CDs..., chrisx, Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:44:14
- Yes, been there done that., SaabSpeeed, Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:44:20
- Re: Laptop hard drive crashed, can't use restore CDs..., AeroDave, Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:44:02
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