[Ham-Computers] Help with HP laptop

[johngadd at comcast.net]

Brian I am a retired computer tech. You have NOT lost everything! I have saved many of these. I live south of Denver CO. my home phone is 303-703-1343 (ATT Member FREE call) I also play with 2 meter radios.  



The "Big Box" store wont sell you one of these adapters USB 2.0 to sata/ide   


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Thawley, KC8CPW" <kc8cpw at gmail.com> 
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 7:31:57 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Help with HP laptop 

First yo u need to determine if the hard drive is ide or sata and then just have them buy a 2.5 notebook/laptop hard drive enclosure and it should hook up to their new computer with no problems via USB. Assuming the hard drive wasn't fried. 

Jonathan 


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-----Original Message----- 
From: "Brian K. Gaskamp" <ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net> 
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:16:15 
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Help with HP laptop 

Hello to all the group. I need some info on how to do this. 

A friend of mine brought me their laptop which is a HP G60. 
Their 1 yr old son accidently spilled some liquid onto the keyboard and it 
fried the motherboard. 
I tried to power the laptop up with no luck. 

What I need to know is if I pull the HD out of the laptop is there anyway to 
get whatever info is on the HD say only a external HD and save it to upload 
to their new computer. 

I'm sure thats not possible but figured I would ask here. 

Or if anybody know a trick on how to jump start the laptop with jumper 
cables that would even better, but pretty sure once the liquid hit the 
insides of the laptop, that was the end of its life. 

Suggestions...Comments.... 

Thanks, 
Brian 

KA5BKG 

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