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Another Dying HDD

beach_boy98
By beach_boy98
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My laptop HDD is dying. This is the second drive that is doing this to me so I want to be smart this time. Right now its turned off. I can not buy a new HDD to image it too so thats out of the question. It is extremely slow anyway less than 5MB's on my guess. How can I be smart. This is an OS drive so only a few Critical files that I don't have copies of. These are childhood memories and thus very important. How to i save my data?

 

 

 

 

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Boot into it, and copy the important files to a flash drive. Then run out and grab an SSD to replace it with.

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1 minute ago, beach_boy98 said:

The OS corupted

Whilst running out to grab the SSD, pick up a SATA to USB adapter and do the process on a second machine.

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1 minute ago, beach_boy98 said:

I can just plug it in now via sata and again I am poor.

Is there a way for you to access the data on the drive?

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3 minutes ago, beach_boy98 said:

Yup. My main desktop is good

Plug the broken hard drive into your desktop and copy files over onto the desktop or a thumb drive.

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