Recent content by cmartin

The problem I am having now is the hard drives are not spinning. I hope they are not dead .

Maybe trying to connect the drives to mine with the sata to USB connector and using ultimate boot cd for windows?

Her laptop doesn't have an HDMI port. Hers is a Sony vaio model # PCG-8111L. It has 4 USB ports, memory stick/card port, audio port, and an optical out port.

I didn't s I didn't see an hdmi port on it but I will double check. Another thing is I don't know her password to her laptop. She recently changed it A few days before it broke. She wrote it down so she could remember it but now she can't find the paper. So if It has an hdmi port and I get it...

I'm not sure if she had the Remote Desktop turned on when she was using her laptop or not. And I'm not sure if mine is on or not . My laptop reads all my other laptop drives just fine. It must be something to do with her running vista on her laptop.

I would try the monitor but this particular laptop doesn't have any ports for an external monitor

Forgot to mention her laptop is a Sony vaio running windows vista home

It was the screen that broke. She bought an iPad to do her work on. All she wants is the data from her laptop transferred to mine. I'm running windows 7 home 64 bit. And using a sata/IDE to USB 2.0 adapter. I tried Ubuntu live cd with no luck. It still doesn't recognize the drives. Only thing I...

Tried Ubuntu live cd. It still will not recognize the hard drives. I go to computer-manage in windows 7 & the disk management lists the drives but it says it is unallocated. I'm not sure what to do here. I don't want to risk messing up the hard drive. Any soulutions on what to do here or how to...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...