Broken Latop, getting stuff off it?

[Justin]

Hey, basically my old laptop has packed in for the second time, and now wont charge at all. Its totally dead.. But all my stuff is on it?

Is there anyways of getting it off, maybe connecting it to my new laptop or something?

long shot i know

 

[koi]

You could take the hard drive out and put it in a usb enclosure to get your stuff off it.

 

[Justin]

yeah? is that difficult to do?

 

[koi]

Depending on the laptop the the hardest part is working out how to get the hard drive out. After that its just the case of sticking it it in the enclosure.

 

[JoelDee]

Get an ubuntu live cd boot off it and copy it to a memory stick..

 

[b3nje]

Either or the above

Obviously if you only have one computer then you'll struggle on both!

HDD enclosure is good as you can buy a secondary HDD and use it in future as an external hdd to backup shizzle!

 

[Justin]

I have my new laptop, but it has none of my music etc on it! Joel -whats that? lol

 

[b3nje]

http://www.ubuntu.com/

"Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. "

BUT i'm not sure why joeldee suggested this...your battery on your laptop is flat so regardless of matter your harddrive needs removing.

Can you not get a new laptop battery??