Please help

starman1

I have a toshiba laptop that recently died taking with it all my work and college material. While it's being fixed I'm getting a loan of my sisters laptop same make and model as mine. If I connect my 02 modem from my laptop into her machine will it have somehow have kept a record of all the essays, accounts and websites i lost on my machine? Do modems store information or is it all gone?

tman

Sorry, but you don't have a hope in hell of getting anything like that off the modem.

Best plan of action imo is to take the hard drive out of the old laptop and put it in an enclosure (you should be able to get one from Maplins/PCworld etc)
This would give you a makeshift external hard drive that you could plug into your sister's laptop

akamossie

everything would be stored in your previous laptop, as the o2 modem provide intenet only and nothing else.

chin_grin

Everything saved to the laptops Hard Drive is saved there unless you loaded them on to a memory stick or burned them on to a cd/dvd. So they're still on your old laptop.

What exactly happened to your one?

You can buy drive caddys that you can take out the old hard drive put it in to one of these and get all your old files again.

starman1

As you can probably tell I'm not very technical. My laptop died in the middle of an important work account. The screen went grey and froze for an hour. I unplugged it and let the battery die but after that it wouldn't even turn back on when it was plugged in. I haven't told the boss just took it to a shop and begged them to make it work. It's been a week and it's still not back. I guessed that a modem wouldn't hold any information so it looks like it's a waiting game. Thank you all for your speedy replies.

akamossie

make sure that, they retreive your data before do anything like formatting the drive or something, and do as suggested from chin_grin, just go to the shop and asked them that you want the hard drive in a case with USB compatibility

RedXIV

Assuming it's just died, as you said, chances are everything EXCEPT what you were working on should still be ok on the harddrive. If you were using Word, the document recovery function might have saved some of the stuff you were working on but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Also, when I was getting harddrive enclosures, i found the difference in getting them in store and online was huge so if you can afford to wait a few days I'd def recommend getting one online

chin_grin

starman1 wrote: »

As you can probably tell I'm not very technical. My laptop died in the middle of an important work account. The screen went grey and froze for an hour. I unplugged it and let the battery die but after that it wouldn't even turn back on when it was plugged in. I haven't told the boss just took it to a shop and begged them to make it work. It's been a week and it's still not back. I guessed that a modem wouldn't hold any information so it looks like it's a waiting game. Thank you all for your speedy replies.

If and when you do get it back I'd consider getting the Hard Drive out (ensure machine is plugged out and turn it over. Should be those tiny screws like the ones for glasses, you're going to need a precision screwdriver there.)

Anyways after removing the hard drive you'll need to see if the connection is IDE or SATA (I'd say the latter).



^ that's kinda what it'll look like. In the pic is a PC hard drive. Laptop ones are smaller (2.5 inches). Just to make sure you get the right one.

So when you have your hard drive in the external case you just plug it in via usb and it'll pick it up on any other machine as an external drive. You should be able to get your documents back that way.

Best of luck!