Hey, i've got a question..
About a year ago I was doing an update to my Sony Vaio laptop when I thought it was frozen. It seemed like it had locked up for hours on the same step so I did a hard shut down. Well as any of you computer savvy people know, that's a big mistake. So.. Now that i've bricked my computer, I was hoping someone could help me save the hard drive some how. There's tons of photos and things on there i'd really like to get on a disc some how. I've seen a few other used sony viao's for sale locally that I nearly bought just so I could see if my hard drive would load up. I have a feeling it may be locked up forever though. I tried reloading windows xp from a burned copy, but that didn't help get the computer going again. Also tried loading previous saves but it won't get past the blue start up screen before it shuts down. Haven't tried messing with it for several months now so I can't remember what all it says..
Maybe I could ship the hard drive to someone who could get into it and copy the info for me to disc or another external hardrive?? Or does anyone have a good idea of how to get it working?
About a year ago I was doing an update to my Sony Vaio laptop when I thought it was frozen. It seemed like it had locked up for hours on the same step so I did a hard shut down. Well as any of you computer savvy people know, that's a big mistake. So.. Now that i've bricked my computer, I was hoping someone could help me save the hard drive some how. There's tons of photos and things on there i'd really like to get on a disc some how. I've seen a few other used sony viao's for sale locally that I nearly bought just so I could see if my hard drive would load up. I have a feeling it may be locked up forever though. I tried reloading windows xp from a burned copy, but that didn't help get the computer going again. Also tried loading previous saves but it won't get past the blue start up screen before it shuts down. Haven't tried messing with it for several months now so I can't remember what all it says..
Maybe I could ship the hard drive to someone who could get into it and copy the info for me to disc or another external hardrive?? Or does anyone have a good idea of how to get it working?
I ended up sourcing a slim, right angle connector that fit absolutely perfectly and pulled the entire build together. Loving it so far. Have pulled up Eve Online is some decent fights with 2 accounts going on max settings. It's quiet and runs fairly cool.