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Crushed Laptop - How to Recover?

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Name: Jerline
Date: December 21, 2006 at 20:50:04 Pacific
Subject: Crushed Laptop - How to Recover?
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Hi, someone I know was posted a question at a IT job interview; How will you fixed a laptop that has crushed BUT you have no recovery disk? Does anyone know the answer to that? Thanks.


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Name: wizard-fred
Date: December 21, 2006 at 21:51:30 Pacific
Subject: Crushed Laptop - How to Recover?
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If it is crushed and the hard disk is destroyed or damaged there is little that can be done.

If you mean crashed then I would try an alternate boot device or installing the hard drive as a secondary drive in a working system.


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Response Number 2
Name: Jerline
Date: December 21, 2006 at 22:18:33 Pacific
Subject: Crushed Laptop - How to Recover?
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Oh... is hard disk crashed & unable to start up. and I forgot to mentioned another point. The laptop has no CD-Rom Drive.. Also, they want to get the same notebok up & running. So is there ways to solve this problem? Thanks.


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Response Number 3
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: December 22, 2006 at 08:10:14 Pacific
Subject: Crushed Laptop - How to Recover?
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wizard-fred already posed one possible solution - put the hard drive in another system to get windows up and working.

Another alternative is to boot the machine with an external floppy or optical drive - if it supoprts it.

Michael J


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