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Problem accessing my drive

PauperViking

My brother's old laptop from work recently died during moving house, and the hard drive may have received a few knocks. The laptop never worked since then, not sure what happened exactly.

Anyhow, he has some data on the hard drive which needs backing up, so I took the HD out and used a 2.5 to 3.5inch IDE adapter, to hook it up to my machine.

It boots up with Safeguard Easy 3.1, asks for the username and password which I have. So I login, start to boot windows then I pretty much immediately get a BSOD, with stop error 0x0000007B. This could be because it is corrupted, but more likely I think because it needs various controllers and hardware it had in the laptop.

I can't therefore access the data. I have since tried accessing the drive via my normal Win7 bootup, but of course this encryption or PBA is stopping me. Now the questions finally - is my brother doomed? Can I access the harddrive in Win7 somehow? What else could I do since is BSODs?

TIA

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    Have you tried a safe-mode boot? Not 100% sure if this worked in v.3x  (it's been a few years since I used that) but you could try....

    Start SGE and if you have POA, authenticate with username/password then immediately you press enter on the username, press F8 (and keep tapping it). See if you can get the widows boot menu and subsequently select safe-mode.

    Alternatively, you could try the F7 option with a windows install disk in the drive. Boot up with the disk in the drive, at the press any key to boot from CD, ignore and let SGE boot. Again if it's POA, enter username and password but don't press enter on password, press F7 instead which shold then start it booting from the CD again and this time press any key to boot the CD and try the recovery console.

    If you don't have POA (it tries to load windows immediatly on boot), you get a few moments to press F2 to override auto-logon and get the POA authentication.

    If my F-keys are wrong or anyone knows his doesn't work in v.3 SGE, please jump in.

    Matt

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    Have you tried a safe-mode boot? Not 100% sure if this worked in v.3x  (it's been a few years since I used that) but you could try....

    Start SGE and if you have POA, authenticate with username/password then immediately you press enter on the username, press F8 (and keep tapping it). See if you can get the widows boot menu and subsequently select safe-mode.

    Alternatively, you could try the F7 option with a windows install disk in the drive. Boot up with the disk in the drive, at the press any key to boot from CD, ignore and let SGE boot. Again if it's POA, enter username and password but don't press enter on password, press F7 instead which shold then start it booting from the CD again and this time press any key to boot the CD and try the recovery console.

    If you don't have POA (it tries to load windows immediatly on boot), you get a few moments to press F2 to override auto-logon and get the POA authentication.

    If my F-keys are wrong or anyone knows his doesn't work in v.3 SGE, please jump in.

    Matt

    :4006
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