this might be a stupid question

[Lilninjsways]

my mom's all in one pc was messed up by my douchbag not so step father 5 years back she wants the pictures off of it but it says there's no os installed I'm guess i can't get anything off of it

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Remove the drive and connect it to another computer

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, Lilninjsways said:

my mom's all in one pc was messed up by my douchbag not so step father 5 years back she wants the pictures off of it but it says there's no os installed I'm guess i can't get anything off of it

You can boot into a live USB with Ubuntu Linux (easiest to source) and view the contents of the drive from there. Or remove the drive entirely and plug it into another system as a secondary drive and get the data off it that way.

 

I use Linux to recover data a lot, especially on SD cards that tend to corrupt themselves out of the blue. Linux just seems to handle situations like that much better as Windows Explorer crashes a lot when there is any sort of corruption on the card.

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Of course, it's possible that the reason it can't find the OS is because the drive is dead, in which case the above techniques won't work and you'll have to take it to a (very expensive) data recovery service to have any luck.

[Lilninjsways]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Of course, it's possible that the reason it can't find the OS is because the drive is dead, in which case the above techniques won't work and you'll have to take it to a (very expensive) data recovery service to have any luck.

ok will do thanks!

 

7 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

You can boot into a live USB with Ubuntu Linux (easiest to source) and view the contents of the drive from there. Or remove the drive entirely and plug it into another system as a secondary drive and get the data off it that way.

 

I use Linux to recover data a lot, especially on SD cards that tend to corrupt themselves out of the blue. Linux just seems to handle situations like that much better as Windows Explorer crashes a lot when there is any sort of corruption on the card.

 

8 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Remove the drive and connect it to another computer

 

[Lilninjsways]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Of course, it's possible that the reason it can't find the OS is because the drive is dead, in which case the above techniques won't work and you'll have to take it to a (very expensive) data recovery service to have any luck.

ok will do thanks!

 

7 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

You can boot into a live USB with Ubuntu Linux (easiest to source) and view the contents of the drive from there. Or remove the drive entirely and plug it into another system as a secondary drive and get the data off it that way.

 

I use Linux to recover data a lot, especially on SD cards that tend to corrupt themselves out of the blue. Linux just seems to handle situations like that much better as Windows Explorer crashes a lot when there is any sort of corruption on the card.

 

8 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Remove the drive and connect it to another computer

 

[tobben]

14 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Of course, it's possible that the reason it can't find the OS is because the drive is dead, in which case the above techniques won't work and you'll have to take it to a (very expensive) data recovery service to have any luck.

I have encountered drives simply being

disconnected aswell, might want to take

a look, depending on the laptop ofcourse.

[HelplmChoking]

23 minutes ago, Lilninjsways said:

my mom's all in one pc was messed up by my douchbag not so step father 5 years back she wants the pictures off of it but it says there's no os installed I'm guess i can't get anything off of it

 

My physics lecturer always says the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

As already mentioned, attach the drive to a different machine, or run Linux off a USB drive. Linux is a bit different from Windows, but it should be easy enough to at least check the drive.

[piemadd]

18 minutes ago, Lilninjsways said:

my mom's all in one pc was messed up by my douchbag not so step father 5 years back she wants the pictures off of it but it says there's no os installed I'm guess i can't get anything off of it

you can get ubuntu linux onto a usb drive, and the boot from the usb. you can dowload ubintu here:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop