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My work laptop (HP 6735s) doesnt sem to want to boot vista after sleep mode. Now i can just go and buy a new one but to make my life easier id like to recover the files.
How do i do this? Can i get some sort of hard drive cradle or would putting it into another laptop work? My old laptop is a Advent 7096, Compatible???
Elp!
Does it have a cd drive or USB port? Just make a boot disk on another pc to get it started. Doesn't need to be vista. Google for instructions.
How far does it get?
Pulling the power and battery, then blipping the power button, can sometimes kick it back into life after a resume failure.
Files aside, you shouldn't need to buy a new laptop due to a software issue.
Easiest way is to get a large USB flash drive, install a live version of Linux Mint on it, then boot off the USB flash drive, access the folders where your files are on the hard drive and copy them to the flash drive.
Next method is to take the hard drive out of the laptop, get a £3 caddy off ebay and plug it into another computer USB port.
Easiest way is to go to your local newsagent and buy a linux mag with a cover disc containing a live distro on and boot from that.
if i get a cradle can i do it myself easily? i.e. will it show as an external disk that i can copy files to an external HDD? That i can do
Linux looks like a pain in the arse and i have never used it before, nor have the geek credentials, the time nor the inclination to figure it out.
one of the linux live CD's will probably automount your vista partition so you can read it via the linux windows explorer equivalent. you could then backup your files to an sd card or burn to another cd.
linux isnt all geeky and hard, even my gf uses it on her shit laptop as its wayyy faster than windows with her laptop spec.
linux can also recover partitions and fix filesystems to a degree but you will need to google this as can be destructive.
you dont say how far the boot gets? any beeps? assume you can enter bios ok? windows recovery console or startup repair should be the first choice if it gets that far.
if it dont then boot from linux would be good to see if hardware still ok
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The caddy would work as you describe, yes, though you'll need the correct type; it'll be IDE or SATA depending on the age of the laptop.