laptop failure after electrical storm

catford

A friend's laptop + his TV and other gadgets went down after an electrical storm recently:eek:
he's got a lot of stuff on his hard drive that he wants to recover;)
As the l/top wont even get to log on ,whats the best way to try and recover the data??
No, he didn't back it up--but he might now.;)

weemee

Hi,

If it's really dead then you could remove the hard disk drive and obtain an external caddy for it. Will serve as a useful backup drive for him to. You can get there units from ebuyer or ebay for a few quid.

Thats what I'd do.

Cheers

Browntoa

this sort of thing

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150026460505

plug it into a USB port on another PC

catford

Browntoa wrote:

this sort of thing

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150026460505

plug it into a USB port on another PC

Thanks Browntoe:T --he couldn't get one ordered fast enough! He's hoping to

save all the business stuff on the laptop:D And he's going to back up his stuff

regularly now;)