Data recovery.

[Danthus]

I have a Dell x300 laptop that I need to get some data off.

The laptop in question does not have an internal CD drive.

So far trying to boot the machine using the following methods has failed.

1. Booting from Windows media, XP and Win 7. (External USB Drive)
2. Various CD and USB bootdisk
3. Booting from an Acronis USB and CD recovery media.

All the boot media, both USB and CD work in any other machine. The external USB CD drives works.

I have also just taken out the hard disk, it looks like a standard IDE connection but a regular IDE cable will not fit, nor will the IDE/SATA converter I have.

So in summary I can't boot to access the HDD and I can't physically attach the HDD to another machine.

Any ideas?

 

[Danthus]

The drive is fine, the BIOS see its, the BIOS sees the external drive and USB key, it just will not boot from them.

As I have said the recovery media, what ever format, USB or CD are also fine, they work in other laptops and computers.

I have a caddy/converter but it will not physically fit!