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How to recover files?
Si_Clist
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I have a dead Win10 PC from which I'd very much like to recover some document files. I have a HD docking station, so is it just a case of removing the HD, sticking it in the dock thingy and copying files to my Win 10 laptop? Or is there, as I suspect there will be, far more to it than that?
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If for some weird or unknown reason the HDD was encrypted then using the dock would likely not work. Otherwise just get on and do it, and you'll have recovered your files in no time at all.
(And I'm sure you've now learned that regular data backups are a must).
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Gosh, that was easy!
Thanks folks. I asked because I was absolutely sure there'd be more to it than that ...We're all doomed0 -
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grumpycrab wrote: »Now the interesting bit - tell us more.
Sorry, it's very uninteresting indeed. Push-button start switch packed up, maker said "can't be replaced on account of you can't get at it, best way forward is to buy a new case and swop all the bits over" and I thought "gubber that for a lark".
So I spent a happy hour with my Dremel cutting away part of the top panel in order to get at the switch, managed to extract the broken moulding that you pushed on, only to find that the actual switch was indeed stuffed. As the man said, replacement not feasible even if one was available on account of it was mounted straight onto a double-sided PCB, and no way of rigging up a substitute, so PC has gone to the dump (less HD), I'm happy just using the laptop nowadays, and I have more deskraum We're all doomed0 -
grumpycrab wrote: »Now the interesting bit - tell us more.
Sorry, it's very uninteresting indeed. Push-button start switch packed up, maker said "can't be replaced on account of you can't get at it, best way forward is to buy a new case and swop all the bits over" and I thought "gubber that for a lark".
So I spent a happy hour with my Dremel cutting away part of the top panel in order to get at the switch, managed to extract the broken moulding that you pushed on, only to find that the actual switch underneath that was indeed stuffed. As the man said, replacement not feasible even if one was available on account of it was mounted straight onto a double-sided PCB, and no way of rigging up a substitute, so PC has gone to the dump (less HD), I'm happy just using the laptop nowadays, and I have more deskraum We're all doomed0 -
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I think David meant "backing up from" when he said "recovering" ... not that the HDD was itself goosed. 0
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grumpycrab wrote: »Find connector on motherboard (do you have the motherboard model?) replace with new connector, wire-pair and any old switch?
That's all well and good if you know your way round puters. But I don't. There was also the consideration that the PC didn't owe me anything, having been bought 6-7 years ago as a business expense. Plus if I got shut of the PC, a 24" Eizo monitor could follow it, along with the spare 24" Eizo. And the keyboard.
Basically I no longer need a PC. The laptop will do just fine for me now We're all doomed0
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