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retrieving hard drive data with blown video card

Started by losman , Sep 18 2011 11:12 AM

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losman

Posted 18 September 2011 - 11:12 AM

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my laptop's video card is no longer working.

I need to rescue the files in the hard drive before I pull it out, reformat it and use it as an external.

Any suggestions?

thx.

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Neil Jones

Posted 18 September 2011 - 11:19 AM

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Take the hard drive out. If it's a SATA drive it will fit in the SATA connectors on any PC motherboard.
Alternatively just make it an external, and copy the data off before you wipe it.