HP97 The journey begins

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(02-23-2023 09:09 AM)teenix Wrote:  It has been a while, and now that I look back into this, after having to get a new laptop in the meantime, I had the donor details stored on the old laptop which now won't boot, a LED comes on but that's it :-(

A USB to SATA interface cable can be had at a reasonable price from Amazon or elsewhere. Try opening the laptop case to see if you hear the drive spin up. If so there's a chance you can remove the drive and mount it via the cable. Perhaps the boot block or OS image was trashed but the data is still there. Recovery of data is much more complicated if the root directory is corrupt, but still possible (speaking from hard experience)

~Mark