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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
What exactly is wrong with your laptop? Most laptops allow you to take the harddrive out easily from the bottom. The harddrive you have in there is essentially the same thing as you find inside a portable enclosure.
You mentioned your screen dying. That has nothing to do with your data and if the laptop dies the harddrive is usually perfectly fine and can be taken out and put in an enclosure or another system.
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The biggest issue now is that the screen is going and I'm not sure when it will cut out and since I'm not completely sure how to remove an HD from one computer and put it somewhere else I don't want to risk losing alot of the information on it. The second issue is it has started running hot constantly (within 5 minutes of being turned on) and the fan is always going and I'm getting auto shut offs pretty frequently even after taking all sorts of steps to keep the laptop and every cool so I figure this thing might only have a matter of time before it decides to go anyway.
I would like to get everything off that laptop and onto something else for piece of mind. I had a laptop a couple years ago that I didn't do this with when I was getting signs it was dying and a couple days later the whole thing went. Lost a bunch of baby pics, music and work documents. I don't want to do the 25+ DVD option so I was exploring other ways to store documents.