Dead Laptop

[original PM]

Hi All,

Just a bit of advice - my laptop has died - pretty sure it is a motherboard failure.

However I want some data of the harddrive - which should be fine.

How feasible will it be to buy another laptop and swap the hard drives?

Appreciate there will be lack of compatibility (probably) in a lot of areas (drivers n things) but do you think I could get a safe boot working?

Or is it just not that easy?

TIA!

[JamJarST]

Hi All,

Just a bit of advice - my laptop has died - pretty sure it is a motherboard failure.

However I want some data of the harddrive - which should be fine.

How feasible will it be to buy another laptop and swap the hard drives?

Appreciate there will be lack of compatibility (probably) in a lot of areas (drivers n things) but do you think I could get a safe boot working?

Or is it just not that easy?

TIA!

You could always take the drive out and fit it into one of those portable enclosures, they are like a fiver on ebay, I've done that before.

[doodab]

You could always take the drive out and fit it into one of those portable enclosures, they are like a fiver on ebay, I've done that before.

WHS. USB hard drive enclosures cost next to nothing and when you've rescued the data you have a free USB hard drive.

[Support Monkey]

You could always take the drive out and fit it into one of those portable enclosures, they are like a fiver on ebay, I've done that before.

WHS unless you buy the same make model and even then you could have problems, just buy a new laptop and just make that one into portable

[original PM]

cheers fellas will try that