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by dober01

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hey people. got a problem i cant solve. got a laptop hard drive that i need to get info off but its got windows 200 on it. when i plug it in my xp laptop it keeps rebooting all the time. it asks me if i want to boot in safe mode but it just rebots. any help would be apreciated. tnks

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by ---tk---

It keeps rebooting b/c the Operating system was not built for that laptop. Your best chances of getting the data off the drive is using an IDE to USB converter.... After attaching the drive to the converter plug it into your XP machine and plug and pray will prompt you with what do you want to do... brows the file system and drag and drop onto you XP machine...

by balge

hi
presumably it is a bare drive? how are you 'plugging it in' to the other laptop?
easiest way is stick it in a usb enclosure & plug it into the working laptop, should just show as another drive
cheers

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