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Laptop hard drive
Bruce Forsyth
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So my notebook video card is fried. Right now, I can turn it on, hear windows booting up, put in my password and turn it off with Alt-F4, but my screen is entirely black except for the little DOS/BIOS load up graphics. I can get the safe mode list, but if I try to boot in safe mode, it just hands. Yesterday it was all graphical glitches and windows couldn't even boot at all sometimes. My problem is I want to get some stuff off of the hard drive. If it was a desktop, I could just put the hard drive in another computer.
So does anyone have any idea how I could possibly get access to my hard drive? Something that I can do sooner than sending it to the manufacturer to have them replace parts.
So does anyone have any idea how I could possibly get access to my hard drive? Something that I can do sooner than sending it to the manufacturer to have them replace parts.
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Failing that, easiest way is to open the access panel on the bottom, remove your notebook's HDD, and hook it up to your PC internally. Might need a 2.5" -> 3.5" adaptor set for that if it's using laptop-standard connectors; SATA ones should be able to plug right into your desktop though.
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What OS are you running? Because if it is XP and you have your profile set to private, or your using Vista, you might have to boot to that OS installation to get into any of your profile files (Like Desktop and My Documents).
If you encrypted your drive you're fucked unless you have the recovery keys/disk.
If you just "set private" then it only locks it out with ownership/NTFS permissions, which can be wtfpwned from the root level by just taking recursive ownership of the entire drive.
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Now I was just referring to the the general locking out of the folder with an access is denied issue. As a Side comment, I haven't had experience with the whole recursive ownership. Would that get set in the security tab, just wondering, I had an issue recently and this might have helped me.