Paul kirjoitti 18.4.2019 klo 5.41:
RayLopez99 wrote:
On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 5:16:55 AM UTC-4, tumppiw wrote:
Paul kirjoitti 16.4.2019 klo 8.59:
Paul wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote:
Here's my dilemma:Â* I want to recover some photos on my girl's now
dead laptop (she spilled coffee in it, typical girl hehe).Â* I have
a backup.Â* 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).Â* 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?Â* I could of course do a physical restore on my new
laptop, get the photos, then restore back to my image file.Â* Just
wondering if there's another way.Â* 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...

Â*Â* 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.

Â*Â*Â* Paul

What is the make/model of her laptop?
If it has a "normal" HDD, why not only take that of of it and connect
to your machine?
If it's a soldered eMMC, that might make it more problematical


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I see.Â* Interesting.Â* Well I'm not an expert with modern PC laptops
but back in the day I've built towers and even soldered together
ribbon cables, lol, but I think I can do what you ask, if I understood
correctly.Â* I will write what I understood below.Â* From the two
answers by Paul and tumppiw, I think there are two options on how to
proceed.
On the first option, the backup program (to answer Paul) was Macrium
Reflect Free (I think, from memory, unless I used that cheap Chinese
software backup forget the name now starts with an A).Â* So regarding
Paul's option, I wonder, if I pay for the Macrium Reflect Pro (paid
version) that perhaps I can 'mount' the Image file from inside of the
Macrium Pro (paid) version software?Â* I bet I can!Â* I recall seeing
such a feature advertised in their website...if so, this might be the
easiest thing to do, assuming I used Macrium Free for the backup.

On the second option, to answer tumppiw, I guess I would need to
connect the old mechanical HD to my system using a SATA cable, and
power supply cable, then boot up with this HDD connected to the PC,
but obviously in a secondary SATA slot not as the primary HDD (the
"C:"), and what would happen?Â* Even if it's got an OS in the boot
sector, obviously as as secondary HDD it should show up renumbered as
say the "D:" drive, right?Â* Then, I go to the D: /Photos /Movies
folders of this old mechanical HDD, copy what I want, power down, take
the mechanical HD out of the PC, and done, right?Â* Oh, that sounds so
easy too!

Much appreciated if you can confirm the above two options, as they are
a lot faster and easier than what I was planning to do.

RL

To "mount" an MRIMG in your possession, you could use:

1) Another Windows PC, install Macrium ReflectFree on it.
2) Connect backup drive with MRIMG on it.
3) Right-click the MRIMG file and examine the options offered.

You can change the drive letter it mounts as, then copy the
files out of the "virtual drive letter" it creates.

*******

The "old" drive from the broken laptop, can be connected to your
tower. It doesn't need a special port number or anything.
Any enabled SATA port would do (i.e. not turned off in the BIOS
for some reason). Master/slave means *nothing* to SATA. It's
a sham. One-drive goes with one-cable goes with one-port.
It's that simple.

When booting the computer, you check the boot order
in the BIOS, by opening the BIOS setup screen with the
key it tells you to use. The POST screen has a legend
at the bottom, which indicates (Asus)

Â*Â* Prsss del to enter BIOS

Â*Â* Press F8 for popup boot

The POST screen is only visible, if you disable the
manufacturer Splash Screen in the BIOS. (When the product
is new, you consult the user manual with regard to the
key press needed to enter the BIOS.)

Different products use different keys. The above is an example.

You can modify the boot order with the first key, and
make sure the "old" drive is not at the top of the list.

The F8 key presents a list of drives to boot from,
and you select the OS drive the computer normally
uses, rather than the "old" drive. The Popup boot key
is preferred for control purposes (as you can easily
steer the computer on every boot with it if you want).

Either method should cause your "regular" OS to boot.

Â*Â* Paul


No you don't need the MacriumReflect Pro, the free version can do that..


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Thomas Wendell
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