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"Unmountable Boot Error" on Dell Inspiron 8600

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sonnyg95, Apr 11, 2006.

sonnyg95 Notebook Geek

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My friend's laptop blue screened on her and she got the Unmountable boot error message. She called dell, and fortunately, she was still under warranty and so they'd send her a new hard drive. However, a bunch of her school work files and what not are still on the damaged hard drive. Dell recommended Drive Savers, but from what I hear, its going to cost an arm and a leg. Anybody else got suggestions on how to recover data from a corrupted hard drive? FYI-- she only has ten days before she has to return the damaged hard drive to Dell and OS can't even load. Thanks in Advance!

_Sonny

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Put the drive in an enclosure and get the data on another computer?

jimc, Apr 11, 2006

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yeah, buy a usb/firewire enclosure for 2.5" hard drives. plug it into another computer and grab what you will.

get 'em at newegg or fry's if you need it asap. i bought one off bensbargains for 9 bux. it's usb2. i keep my mp3 on it.

drumfu, Apr 11, 2006

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