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I just saw this thread.
I don't know if you've achieved 100% of your goals with this, but in case you haven't, the easiest way to get the data off any NT drive- laptop or otherwise is irrelevant- is to use an awesome utility called FABS.
You can install it on any machine, attach an external drive, run the application and it will "scan" the subject drive and back up all the relevant data onto any device, including a little USB flash drive if that's what you have handy. Why it's so great is because it keeps the original file folder integrity, and it's viewable through your machine. I've used it many times. It also cuts through Win 7 ownership issues. When you run it you can check box every user on that machine with no passwords.
EDITED TO ADD: Here's FABS- http://www.fpnet.fr/
When you are done grabbing all the files off the old machine's drive, and you are certain they're safe on your flash or other media, simply take that old drive, format it, re-install Windows and then on the new install, run FABS again, and it will restore all your files.
Of course before you nuke and pave your old drive, run Magic Jellybean to lift the old Win 7 keys.
I don't know if you've achieved 100% of your goals with this, but in case you haven't, the easiest way to get the data off any NT drive- laptop or otherwise is irrelevant- is to use an awesome utility called FABS.
You can install it on any machine, attach an external drive, run the application and it will "scan" the subject drive and back up all the relevant data onto any device, including a little USB flash drive if that's what you have handy. Why it's so great is because it keeps the original file folder integrity, and it's viewable through your machine. I've used it many times. It also cuts through Win 7 ownership issues. When you run it you can check box every user on that machine with no passwords.
EDITED TO ADD: Here's FABS- http://www.fpnet.fr/
When you are done grabbing all the files off the old machine's drive, and you are certain they're safe on your flash or other media, simply take that old drive, format it, re-install Windows and then on the new install, run FABS again, and it will restore all your files.
Of course before you nuke and pave your old drive, run Magic Jellybean to lift the old Win 7 keys.
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I used Recuva to do the recovery.
It worked, as did the USB Enclosure. Unfortunately, that hard drive is totally toast. No point to recover the keys, I have the key sticker on the box. Since that laptop is DRT, I'm using the win7 install on my desktop.
Now I'm in the process of planning the next box for me to use, and recasing the current box to hand it off to the missus for her purposes. Just need to save the dosh up, although I can do some incremental installation of various goodies... PCIe M.2 installed SSD on this box, as an example. This motherboard (Asus z97-P) only allocates 2 lanes of PCIe to the m.2 port, where I'll have 4 lanes for the next computer. Hopefully, they'll come out with larger size m.2 compatible drives soon. 2 lane smokes SATA (600m/sec) by 200mb/s and 4 lane gets 1.2gb/second transfer rate...
