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Recently my laptop broke (and I will explain how etc. momentarily) and I had it brought into a repairs shop. Apparently it's "not worth fixing" which I though would be the case. However, all my information is trapped on the HDD which I believe should still be fully functional and still hold all the memory I had on it, but I just cant acess it. I could ask the repairs shop to take it off for me and put it onto an external HDD but it's far too costly and I have too much information for it to be affordable (they charge per gig).
What I have is is a Sony VaioVGN-FZ18L with a 160GB HDD. I'm aware that it takes some dis-assembly of the laptop to reach the HDD and have it disconneted which I'm prepared to do. But I'm not sure as to what to do after that. If someone could throw some suggestions my way it would be greatly appeciated.
As for the issue of it breaking I think it may have started with the RAM. The RAM was only 1GB running on Vista which takes 1GB itself, my laptop is 2-3 years old and it's memory was pretty low anyway and I tend to have a lot going on at once, it just wont turn on any longer. Which is okay, I just wish to retrieve lost info.
Thanks for the help.
Edit: HDD model - Toshiba HDD2d60 S Zk01 S
What I have is is a Sony VaioVGN-FZ18L with a 160GB HDD. I'm aware that it takes some dis-assembly of the laptop to reach the HDD and have it disconneted which I'm prepared to do. But I'm not sure as to what to do after that. If someone could throw some suggestions my way it would be greatly appeciated.
As for the issue of it breaking I think it may have started with the RAM. The RAM was only 1GB running on Vista which takes 1GB itself, my laptop is 2-3 years old and it's memory was pretty low anyway and I tend to have a lot going on at once, it just wont turn on any longer. Which is okay, I just wish to retrieve lost info.
Thanks for the help.
Edit: HDD model - Toshiba HDD2d60 S Zk01 S
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