Hi all,
I started having trouble with my Windows 7 laptop yesterday when it wouldn't boot. It would go straight to the system repair screen, and the system repair would repeatedly fail. After viewing the reports, it seems that the ntoskrnl.exe file was corrupt. I'd been having problems here and there with the laptop for a long time (Toshiba Satellite U845W-S400), so at this point, I don't even care about getting it working again. I just want to get the files that I haven't backed up.
I was able to hook up an external HD and get some files ferried over to the new laptop using the command prompt, but at some point, the command prompt became unresponsive, and when I restarted the laptop, it wouldn't get further than the Toshiba splash screen, and a message that said "a disk read error occurred". I'm hoping for some suggestions on how to get my files. I'm aware of hard drive enclosures, but I'm not sure if anyone in this small town would sell them, and I already took a look inside the laptop, and I'm not able to remove any of the possible hard drive candidates without cutting wires or ribbons, so for now, I'd like to avoid that option. The machine doesn't have an optical drive installed, but I have a secondary plug-in drive that I use with the new laptop.
I realize that the most likely outcome here is that I end up getting a hard drive enclosure and destroying the old laptop to get the drive out, I just want to see if I have any other options first. Let me know any additional information you might need, and thanks in advance!
I started having trouble with my Windows 7 laptop yesterday when it wouldn't boot. It would go straight to the system repair screen, and the system repair would repeatedly fail. After viewing the reports, it seems that the ntoskrnl.exe file was corrupt. I'd been having problems here and there with the laptop for a long time (Toshiba Satellite U845W-S400), so at this point, I don't even care about getting it working again. I just want to get the files that I haven't backed up.
I was able to hook up an external HD and get some files ferried over to the new laptop using the command prompt, but at some point, the command prompt became unresponsive, and when I restarted the laptop, it wouldn't get further than the Toshiba splash screen, and a message that said "a disk read error occurred". I'm hoping for some suggestions on how to get my files. I'm aware of hard drive enclosures, but I'm not sure if anyone in this small town would sell them, and I already took a look inside the laptop, and I'm not able to remove any of the possible hard drive candidates without cutting wires or ribbons, so for now, I'd like to avoid that option. The machine doesn't have an optical drive installed, but I have a secondary plug-in drive that I use with the new laptop.
I realize that the most likely outcome here is that I end up getting a hard drive enclosure and destroying the old laptop to get the drive out, I just want to see if I have any other options first. Let me know any additional information you might need, and thanks in advance!