> What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead > laptop?
Depends on how it died. If it was non-hard drive related, the hard drive is IDE and, with a cheap adapter, you can plug it in as a slave drive in any desktop to move data over. If the drive is the cause of the PC dying, you'd either have to send it to a data-recovery company (read: expensive), or hook it up as a slave drive and see if you could get some of the data off. If it was the cause, it probably won't even spin up, so the data-recovery folks may be the only option. Chris Blake _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss