The battery of my ten-year-old Toshiba Satellite Pro S300L-135 laptop is dead. I took it out of the laptop, but my laptop won't boot even without a battery. Power arrives, a green LED lights up. What to do? I want to save my data from the hard drive, I don't need the laptop anymore. What can be defective on the laptop? What should I do to get the laptop working again? Or should I just save the data on the hard drive? What do I have to do for that?
Remove the disk, insert it into a PC (if it is a SATA disk) and simply pull down the data. Unless the disk itself is the problem. If no PC is available, there are also adapters for something like that.
Remove the plate and connect it to the PC with such an adapter: https://www.amazon.de/...019SW4Z42/
Then you can copy the data if the disk is OK.
Personally, before I stress such an old disk, I would rather make an image with Linux and dd_rescue and then pull the data from it! You can use our live system for this: https://sourceforge.net/...y-toolkit/
Making an image is much gentler for a disk because the head doesn't have to jump back and forth hectically but read all data from start to finish in one movement. Especially dd_rescue can handle minor read errors and problems well.
With the right adapter it wouldn't matter if it were IDE!
I know, I know There are enough 2.5 "IDE disks lying around here… With 1 and 2-digit GB numbers. The oldest is probably around 20 years old (and still runs flawlessly).
May I ask what you do with all that stuff? We're looking for old disks for data recovery from customers…
Handcraft. I've got a whole bunch of old laptops lying around… When I feel like it, I'll make things like "3 make 1": D
What I can't find is a usable Socket 7 board for my retro computer.
I sent you an FA once…
