On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:37:15AM -0400, you wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, at 9:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > A Sony VAIO Z505JS (PCG-5201).
>
> Oh. A Sony. Nevermind. They're all different. And a pain. And Sony
> doesn't believe in documentation. Or customer service. Good luck.
Th
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, at 9:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A Sony VAIO Z505JS (PCG-5201).
Oh. A Sony. Nevermind. They're all different. And a pain. And Sony
doesn't believe in documentation. Or customer service. Good luck.
> I should have been more precise. I'm sure it's a 44-pin connect
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:41:35 -0400
"Roger H. Goun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All good points. But the drive in an external enclosure with a USB
> cable is potentially a lot more useful.
As I mentioned earlier, One World Computing has a series of good
enclosures. While this is a Macintosh place,
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:12:09PM -0400, Ben wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, at 12:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
> > screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart)
>
> What brand and model?
A Sony VAIO Z505JS (PCG
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:06:14PM -0400, you wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:56:01 -0400
> "Roger H. Goun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
> > screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart) so I can
> > verify that it'
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, at 12:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
> screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart)
What brand and model?
One common thing: On many laptops, you need to remove the keyboard to
expose more sc
Erik Price wrote:
Man! I wish I'd thought of that a few weeks ago! I was in a similar
situation to the OP.
I'm going to keep a copy of Knoppix in my car's emergency kit.
A more minimal CD is @Stake's Security Toolkit:
http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/pst/
I burned some Knoppix 3.2 CD's recently (2003-06-06 release) and will be
bringing them to the meeting on the 25th as giveaways. First dibs
accepted from "newbies".
-dl
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:49:30PM -0400, Erik Price wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix
> >on CD and attempting to boot from that. My wife's laptop died not
> >too long ago with a bad hard drive failure. I was able to boo
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:56:01 -0400
"Roger H. Goun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
> screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart) so I can
> verify that it's the standard 44-pin IDE interface, I'll order a
> 44-pin to 40-
Thanks for all the cogent responses. The laptop is genuinely dead, not
just hosed. (I run Debian unstable. I can tell the difference. :-) No
lights, no horrible grinding noises from the hard drive, nothing. I
tried two different known-good batteries, with and without the A/C
adapter, with and witho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix
on CD and attempting to boot from that. My wife's laptop died not
too long ago with a bad hard drive failure. I was able to boot off
of CD with Knoppix, which correctly identified all the system
h
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:10:45 EDT
"Roger H. Goun" said:
>What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
>laptop?
>
>I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start.
Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix
o
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:10:45 -0400
"Roger H. Goun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
> laptop?
>
> I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start.
> I've been through all the usual troubleshooting steps. It woul
> 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 dyi
They sell adapters that can hook a laptop sized hard drive to the ribbon
cable of a PC. Make it a secondary slave disk on a knowm good PC,
preferably on a network, boot up the PC, mount the secondary disk under
some /tmp mount point, then tar or cp to a backup area.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Roger H.
I think that this question has come up here before - IIRC
you can get an adapter that (since a laptop IDE drive is
electrically identical to a regular IDE drive) allows you
to plug install a laptop drive in a desktop machine.
Obviously, if the drive itself is zorched, this approach
is a waste of
What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
laptop?
I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start.
I've been through all the usual troubleshooting steps. It would cost
almost $100 just to get a repair quote from Sony's service department,
and a minim
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