Revived Computer
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
March 23, 2016 9:47am CST
Or at least its brain! Using my newest computer I was able to extract all the data from the previous computer's hard drive without issue. I was unable to do it from my laptop for whatever reason, but it worked just fine from the new desktop.
All 500 some gigabytes of data that I thought I might have lost I was able to recover to the new computer. Now I am in the process of backing all that recovered data into another, larger hard drive. Maybe down the road I will get even another and store data on that in another location where it would be safe.
I'm not sure if I will be restoring the old computer or not. If I do it will wipe out everything on the drive and it would be like new again. However, it would be another machine that is sitting around that I might not be using. I'll have to give it some thought. All I really cared about were the files, and now they are on this new machine.
Something to think about.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
24 Mar 16
I used a hard drive dock. I just found out about them last year when I was trying to get files off old IDE drives. Fortunately the SATA drives are much easier. Then the old hard drive becomes like a flash drive in a way.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
24 Mar 16
@OneOfMany If you still have files to remove from a laptop, try using a bootable copy of Linux. You can download a free copy of Ubuntu and boot the laptop from it, then transfer the files to a flash drive.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
24 Mar 16
@Asylum Fortunately it was a desktop hard drive that was the bad one. The laptop works great and its files are already backed up.
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@KuznVinny (768)
• United States
25 Mar 16
I have 3 hard drives in my computer. The best stuff (hard-to-find old movies, etc.) I keep on at least 2 of the drives.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
25 Mar 16
I now have the information stored in 3 places. Eventually I'll put more info in another location. I have to learn to be a little more consistent with what I save now.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
24 Mar 16
glad you were able to save things, I remember you mentioning it a bit ago
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
24 Mar 16
Yes, but for some reason I wasn't too terribly worried like I would get in the past. I guess I had a feeling that I would figure it out sooner or later.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
24 Mar 16
Yes, now I have the data in 3 places. I just have to make sure I store the new data I acquire into back ups as I go.
