Paul wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote:
Here's my dilemma: I want to recover some photos on my girl's now
dead laptop (she spilled coffee in it, typical girl hehe). I have a
backup. The laptop was a x63 Windows 10 system with an AMD chip that
was 'soldered on', the modern trend where nothing is fixable, and the
PC repair guy said it's not worth repairing (he actually got it to
work before it completely died, but it had problems ever since the
coffee spill that never went away, like some sort of residue was
literally gumming up the mobo, possibly spraying some solvent on it
would have helped, but I digress). I got a system with lots of RAM,
also x64 Win 10, and I run Oracle VirtualBox. So is it possible to
somehow virtually restore this dead laptop on VirtualBox? I could of
course do a physical restore on my new laptop, get the photos, then
restore back to my image file. Just wondering if there's another
way. I hate restoring hard drives from image files since I always
fear something bad will happen, thou
gh so far in the half dozen times I've done it nothing has.

RL

What did you use for your backup ?

Chances are, you don't need to restore anything,
and the image file just needs to be mounted.

There are 20+ commercial backup tools, each different...

Paul

You mention a modern trend.

Would this machine, perhaps, not have any backups at all ?

And you're asking how to get files off an eMMC flash
soldered to the motherboard ?

You see, the CPU soldered to the motherboard, I think you're
dropping a hint that this unit is "thin and light", and has
thus many compromises in terms of access.

When you know a new computer sucks with regard to this sort
of thing, backups are much more important.

Paul