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Old 04-02-2011, 03:46 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
If it hasn't repartitioned the drive (and it probably hasn't if you've been choosing the reinstall), then you can probably just connect the drive to a working computer (via a USB enclosure for example) and browse the drive and copy the files.

Hopefully the drive is only bad in a small area and the rest you can read from.

If it's worse than that (i.e. you can't read from any portion of the drive), then you might be looking at a much more complex and expensive process.
How would I do this?

It is a laptop HDD and my moms computer is a normal HDD.
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