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Can I salvage my hard drive and its contents?
Yesterday, my 6 year old Vista computer was working fine when it started to smoke and turned off with a loud "BINK", the same sound it's made the few times I've had to do a hard shut down. Neither the battery nor the battery area has any obvious damage. I'm not brave enough to try to turn it back on. Can I put the hard drive into a case with a USB connector and access it without damaging the computer I plug it into?
Luckily, I regularly backup important data files but I need my updated email contacts and a couple of other things that I didn't backup;-(
3 Answers
- Jessica QuellerLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
As long as it's only the computer and not the hard drive that's smoking and making noise, you can take out the hard drive and use an external enclosure to plug it into another computer to get the contents.
- 9 years ago
Yes you can put it if you buy one or take it to a shop and ask the to do them for you so you will be sure if hdd its ok they will retrieve your vital data that you lost.
I dont trust anymore external hdd they can crash in a minute and are expensive and even if they change it and give me a new one i still lose my backups ...so i moved to online backup!!!
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Hope i was helpful!!!
Source(s): http://www.backup-easy.com/ - ?Lv 45 years ago
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