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Guide to recover data from laptops
Recovering data from laptops are indeed a difficult process but not too hard not to achieve.
Laptops are easy to damage, and prone to problems, so keeping a guide to data recovery on laptops can prove handy.
So here are some tips on data recovery on laptops.
Most of the notebooks have access to the hard drive from the top, and many modern laptops have a special coating panel underneath where the hard drive can easily be accessed from the top. Older Dell laptops have a smaller side panel which we can simply unscrew and slide out.
To access the laptop hard drive though the top panel, undo the screws at the bottom of the laptop. Then, using a good precision head screwdriver, remove the screws that hold the top panel in place and store them in a safe location. Sometimes the screws could be difficult to find so just look under the stickers or the laptops rubber feet. Some laptops just snap together with clips. So you don’t have to even find the screws.
Once the screws are unscrewed and taken off, lift up the top panel being careful not to pull the ribbon cable connected to the touchpad.
Then carefully disconnect the touchpad ribbon cable. To disconnect it from the laptop, lift the white plastic bar to slide the ribbon cable out, however this may be different on other laptops. Make sure you take note of how you disconnected it because you will need to reconnect it when the process is finished.
Now, you’d be able to see the shield that holds the hard disk in place. Unscrew the shield and lift it up, this should reveal the hard disk. Now lift the hard disk and unplug the cable connected to it.
We now need to connect the hard disk to a PC to recover the data.
Plug the desktop computers IDE cable into the converter plug making sure the red stripe on the IDE cable is on the same side as the power cable. Then plug the converter into the laptop hard drive making sure that the power side is on the same side as the hard drive jumpers. Be very careful while doing this as it is very easy to bend pins on both the converter and the laptop hard drive.
After you connect the hard drive to a PC, you need a laptop data recovery software to transfer all the data from the laptop hard drive to the PC.
Just google and you will find lot of laptop data recovery soft wares.
Once the data recovery is done completely, put the hard drive back in place, screw it, give the connection back and place it firmly with the screws in place.
