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Originally Posted by sixfour
Lee, download a Linux boot CD (always used to be Knoppix, probably want Ubuntu now) and shove that into your existing PC. That should allow you to at least try to look at the existing drive to see if it is actually ****ed or just won't boot, if it's the latter you can then start to grab what you need off it
Thank you, but I have 2 questions before I try this.
1. The drive is no longer in the laptop. Best Buy replaced the hard drive. We have the original, unopened, drive, but how do I connect it to a laptop?
2. Do I risk causing more damage and permanent data loss by trying this? The Best Buy Geek Squad guy seemed to think that this would be the case. Like I've said, I'm no geek so this is all new to me.
Lee