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[bodhi]

Hey,

My mate's laptop is knackered, doesn't boot into windows etc, he's got loads of MP3s in a folder he wants to get off.

Any idea on the best way to do this? I thought if i could connect my external hard drive and copy them off, but how do I go about doing that if it won't boot up? Is there a way you can boot into safe mode at all?

Bodhi

 

[TriplexDread]

You need a external caddy mate

Summat like this

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149268

 

[Nobody in particular]

Hi,

Yeah you can try Safe Mode,

Before the Boot Screen. When you power on your PC on keep hiting F8, it will then give you some options of what you wan to do.

Safe Mode with Networking

Safe Mode with Command Prompt

Safe Mode

Etc etc

I usually select Safe Mode with Networking

Once your in Safe Mode, see if you can plug in your external HDD and get off any data that you want. (sometimes Safe Mode doesn't pick up PnP devices such as USB - not sure though)

 

[TriplexDread]

Aye Safe mode sometimes will not give you access to certain drives/devices due to the driver installation upon boot up

 

[Nobody in particular]

Aye Safe mode sometimes will not give you access to certain drives/devices due to the driver installation upon boot up

Ah, thorght so lol

 

[Nobody in particular]

If Safe Mode doesn't work, you could always take out the HDD and slave it up to another PC, or a caddy if you have one.

 

[Adywebb]

Have you thought about booting from a live linux distro CD and accessing/saving from there?

 

[floppybootstomp]

Aye, either an external caddy for the 2.5" disk ( a useful thing to have) or burn a live Linux Distro and load data to a memory stick or similar.

 

[Abarbarian]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....398443&cguid=f55a52b511e0a0aad3908fe0ffe79016

I got one of these for such an emergancy.