Name: Anonymous 2006-10-01 11:11
tl;dr
Last June I went on vacation for a few months, leaving behind my desktop. Returning home a few months later (fortunately with a new laptop), I was disappointed to find out that it had, according to my siblings, "stopped working" in my absence. Taking it with me, and making several vows to "look at it next week" I finally got around to fixing it today.
The problem seemed to be the power supply, which seemed to buzz when plugged in but refused to actually start the computer up. My roommate and I confirmed this today, when we took the power supply out and discovered a piece had been broken off inside. Okay sweet, new power supply no problem.
So a trip to the local computer store and $45 later I've got the part. A quick instillation yields power going to the board, but absolutely no response. Well crap. It seems that the brand and particular model (An Emachine T2692 that I picked up for $200 on a Black Friday a few years prior) has a history of power supply and mobo problems. Probably should have seen that one coming.
Well my roommate still had an ace up his sleeve: the housing for his external dvd player. With some quick work took out the hard drive from the old computer and now have it connected through usb to my laptop. Awesome.
Here's the tricky part. Because I'm running it like an external hard drive, it won't give me access to files with My Documents. We tried booting up through the old hard drive, but Windows seems pretty messed up at this point and keeps blue screen of death'ing.
So is there anyway to get access to these files? I'm guessing that any kind of crack for this might be slightly less than legal.
Last June I went on vacation for a few months, leaving behind my desktop. Returning home a few months later (fortunately with a new laptop), I was disappointed to find out that it had, according to my siblings, "stopped working" in my absence. Taking it with me, and making several vows to "look at it next week" I finally got around to fixing it today.
The problem seemed to be the power supply, which seemed to buzz when plugged in but refused to actually start the computer up. My roommate and I confirmed this today, when we took the power supply out and discovered a piece had been broken off inside. Okay sweet, new power supply no problem.
So a trip to the local computer store and $45 later I've got the part. A quick instillation yields power going to the board, but absolutely no response. Well crap. It seems that the brand and particular model (An Emachine T2692 that I picked up for $200 on a Black Friday a few years prior) has a history of power supply and mobo problems. Probably should have seen that one coming.
Well my roommate still had an ace up his sleeve: the housing for his external dvd player. With some quick work took out the hard drive from the old computer and now have it connected through usb to my laptop. Awesome.
Here's the tricky part. Because I'm running it like an external hard drive, it won't give me access to files with My Documents. We tried booting up through the old hard drive, but Windows seems pretty messed up at this point and keeps blue screen of death'ing.
So is there anyway to get access to these files? I'm guessing that any kind of crack for this might be slightly less than legal.