You may wanna give the guys at red seven computers a call they are
penguin friendly

On 2/7/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
>
> EGaD!  This varies by manufacturer....
>
> Cannot post can be a variety of things:
>
> a) video card
> b) lcd
> c) power supply
>
> Google the following:
>
> 1) (drive specifications) + "drive data recovery"
>
> 2) (Laptop maker) + (version) + cannot post
>
> 3) (drive specifications) + SATA (or whatever your desktop card/bus is)
>
> Before you mess with it too much, you might have someone with a test bench &
> experience look at her?
>
>
> Also google for some extra parts or look at buying another one just like it
> off CL/EBay?
>
> It might be really cheap.
>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:15:51 -0700
> Subject: Rescuing laptop HD
> From: phrkonaleash@gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to a general hardware failure on my laptop, it refuses to even POST.
>
> I know that the HDD on it is still valid, because the problem was a
> cascading series of events (first LCD stopped working, then the wireless
> NIC, then the ethernet and finally it wouldn't post)
>
> I don't have another laptop to plug this drive (it says on the outside of
> the drive uSATA ro something like that) into, and what I want to know, is
> what kind of hardware do I need to plug it into a a standard SATA bay on my
> desktop so that I can get out the data (which, oopsmybad, is not backed up)
>
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