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Does it show in DEVICE MANAGER under DISK DRIVES or USB...right click My Compter select Properties select Hardware then Device Manager
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Have you tried using a external monitor to see if the post screens then show up?Her laptop only shows a lot of thin vertical lines. There's no sound to indicate that Windows is booting. It is the same whether or not it is plugged in.
I posted a screen shot earlier in the reply-- I don't think it showed anything. I'm not sureDoes it show in DEVICE MANAGER under DISK DRIVES or USB...right click My Compter select Properties select Hardware then Device Manager
How would I do that? Would I attach my desktop's monitor to the laptop, boot it up, and see if anything shows on the monitor?Have you tried using a external monitor to see if the post screens then show up?
whoops! I'll check on that.Your screenshot was from DISK management not DEVICE manager
I actually tried that first, but the same thing happened, so I moved to my husband's laptop because it is newer. (I thought maybe it would be able to read it where the desktop could not.)you have a desktop ?. Have you tried using the usb cable & your daughters hard drive with it.
Yes attach your monitor. this may only confirm that the laptop has a fault, it won't help to recover your daughters data. Your screenshot was from DISK management not DEVICE manager
Does it show in DEVICE MANAGER under DISK DRIVES or USB...right click My Compter select Properties select Hardware then Device Manager
Edited by Estee, 21 May 2010 - 04:05 PM.
Some of the newer systems are capable of booting to a external drive. It sounds like this is what happened with you.
When you say your daughters system stopped working will it not power on at all?
With or without it being plugged into the wall?
The other option is as I said a external enclosure and you should be able to use a desktop system to access the drive then.
If your daughters system does power up how far into booting up windows does it go?
Like the laptop, the desktop detected the drive (the balloon in the lower right corner of the screen said it detected it) but then it did not show up in My Computer.You should be able to boot the desktop up and then after it is in windows connect the usb in and the system should be able to find the drive.
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