Terry;
I just dealt with a similar situation on a client's desktop hard drive.
the computer wouldn't boot and the drive contents didn't show from a floppy
boot,
so I removed the hard drive and hooked it up as a slave on another win98
computer.
I did the old freezer treatment on the defective drive for about 30 min.
then was able to copy his large "my documents" folder, then the drive
"died".
The drive was making quite a bit of noise.
After about 6 hrs in the freezer in an (anti-static bag),
I tried to ghost it to a new drive but it failed.
This was win98 so I tried xcopy with the "richkey" switch, and it copied
most of the files and
died again. Fdisked and made the new drive active.
Low and behold the new copied drive booted to win98 and saved almost all his
data.
He had to re-install a couple of programs because of missing .dlls
Customer was overjoyed cause he was resigned to losing everything.
In your case you would have to have a laptop drive to desktop adapter like
this one:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108
I think this method would be your best bet to recover data from the drive,
short
of sending it to a data recovery company.
If the drive isn't to far gone, you may not have to freeze it.
<>< Larry Fisk
Fisk Computers
Fruitvale, Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Boerner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:22 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Data recovery
> I'm currently working on a Toshiba laptop and the hard drive is on it's
last leg.
> This person uses ACT software for her sales job. She has over 800 clients
in
> this application and I cannot perform a backup. It keeps failing or the
laptop
> just shuts down. I was able to copy most of the info and got it to work
on her new laptop but when I copied the email directory under ACT and copied
that to her new laptop I cannot read any of the old emails when I access
ACT. I did
> check off read only but still no luck. Everything else seems to work
fine.
> She has all 800+ of her clients that I copied over but when she clicks the
> associated email with a client nothing happens. She uses Outlook express
which
> is associated with ACT. Should I be copying the .pst file? Any
suggestions? Is there any data recovery shareware out there? Thanks for
your help.
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