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burlmart
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Jul 20, 2014

No excuses, no backup, but would like to recover HD data

We bought a Dell Inspiron 3520 & Win 8 about 15 months ago at BB. 320Gb hard disk (Samsung SATA) failed. Never had this happen before, so never made the W8 backup disks to get reinstall OS on a ne...
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Clay_L
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Jul 21, 2014
When I had a laptop drive that would not boot up I installed a new drive and operating system then put the old drive in an external housing. I was then able to get data from the drive. As I recall the external housing and circuit board was less than $50.

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