|Montana Bengal| Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions. My dell hard drive is toast and I'm trying to pull as much info off it as possible. When I plug it in to another machine (via USB) Win 7 wants to format it....I'm probably going to need something other than M$ to get at what I can.... Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Fire the computer up using a Linux live cd and copy it disk to disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted February 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 I'll try in tomorrow and let you know how it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincyInDC Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 [url="http://partedmagic.com/doku.php"]Parted magic[/url] is great for these situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Very cool! I've got something else running right now. It is slow, but it seems to be grabbing things. If I wasn't so far along, I'd just stop it. Did I mention that it was VERY SLOW. Oh well, it doesn't hurt to try a couple different things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enon Bengal Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 I have a related question. I have a hard drive that has about ten years worth of pictures on it. The machine that it is in now is about to give up the ghost. Removing the old hard drive is easy but I'm assuming I can't install that old hard drive into a new computer. The question is how can I access the picture files on that hard drive if I choose to remove it and trash the old machine? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 [quote name='Enon Bengal' timestamp='1330451823' post='1100193'] I have a related question. I have a hard drive that has about ten years worth of pictures on it. The machine that it is in now is about to give up the ghost. Removing the old hard drive is easy but I'm assuming I can't install that old hard drive into a new computer. The question is how can I access the picture files on that hard drive if I choose to remove it and trash the old machine? Thanks. [/quote] you can buy an enclosure from newegg.com for like $10-20, put the hard drive in there and plug into new machine via usb... the new machine will read it just like a thumb drive of files... you can go in and delte the system files and just look for your pictures or desktop folders of files you want to keep.. i have done this many times.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enon Bengal Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 [quote name='GoBengals' timestamp='1330967405' post='1102273'] you can buy an enclosure from newegg.com for like $10-20, put the hard drive in there and plug into new machine via usb... the new machine will read it just like a thumb drive of files... you can go in and delte the system files and just look for your pictures or desktop folders of files you want to keep.. i have done this many times.. [/quote] Wow - that's way too easy. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enon Bengal Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 [quote name='GoBengals' timestamp='1330967405' post='1102273'] you can buy an enclosure from newegg.com for like $10-20, put the hard drive in there and plug into new machine via usb... the new machine will read it just like a thumb drive of files... you can go in and delte the system files and just look for your pictures or desktop folders of files you want to keep.. i have done this many times.. [/quote] Did this over the weekend, works great. Thanks for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 [quote name='Enon Bengal' timestamp='1332646035' post='1111763'] Did this over the weekend, works great. Thanks for the suggestion. [/quote] excellent! glad it worked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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