"I am the Vine"
Advice needed
Submitted by Charla on Thu, 2008-06-05 15:09.
Technology
That lightning strike a few weeks ago seems to have taken out our old desktop computer. It was almost 8 years old, running Windows 98 SE. We used it mainly as the kids' computer, and my husband used it to keep his files on.
The pc won't boot up now, but does have power. I've gotten a quote from a computer store... they want between $65 - 250 to get files off the hard drive, and that's of course if it's possible. They want $65 just to do diagnostics on it.
Is that really worth it? I can't do this testing on my own, but I would like to get my husband's files off the drive, if its possible. He's bummed to have lost his files, but I copied over most everything I needed to this laptop a long time ago, so I'm not missing anything.
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Il est mort.
Submitted by Charla on Tue, 2008-06-17 00:11.
Here's a public "Thanks, Dave!" for looking at my old computer. Just to clue everyone else in, the hard drive is in fact, dead.
C'est la vie.
Or, in this case, c'est la mort.
Use external adapter
You can pick up a hard drive adapter that lets you treat an internal drive as an external drive, and hook it up to a USB port on another computer. If the old drive is OK, it should be readable by the other computer.
If the drive doesn't appear, then it may be dead. It may still be possible to get the data off the computer, but it won't be easy or cheap. There are shops that specialize in doing this, but they charge a lot.