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Beerman

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If you have another working desktop PC...


...chances are that if you open it up there will be an extra SATA cable floating around inside of it. If the "dead" hard drive is mechanically sound but you're dealing with, for example, a corrupt Windows installation that won't boot, then you can just plug it in to the other PC and grab files off of it.

(In response to this post by PhotoHokieNC)

Posted: 11/24/2020 at 7:55PM


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  Who knows how to resurrect data from a crashed hard drive? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 11/24/2020 4:07PM
  If you have another working desktop PC... -- Beerman 11/24/2020 7:55PM
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  Zackly ** -- AZHokie59 11/25/2020 09:49AM
  Lazarus consulting ** -- bigbadbird 11/24/2020 6:08PM
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