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Originally Posted by blake5676
I have a somewhat related question I just thought of while reading the OP. My laptop from probably 15 years ago is still in my possession. It was an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad I believe (with the little red button in the middle of the keyboard) and was a beast. Anyhow, it died because the fan went out and I bought something new rather than fix it. That being said, I never trashed it bc I always wanted to get around to trying to get it turned on again and grab whatever old photos/files were on there.
Is there a way to do that without 1)replacing the fan or 2) taking it to some stranger to pull everything off the hard drive for me?
I don't know EXACTLY what's on it but the thought of a random stranger getting to snoop around my laptop from my 20's isn't appealing. Any advice from the technically savvy on here??
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It's pretty easy these days*, they have all kinds of USB adapters for HDD and SSDs... something like this for an HDD...
https://www.amazon.com/SABRENT-SATA-...011M8YACM?th=1
Confirm what kind of hard drive it has, open it up and confirm you can get it out of there, buy the USB converter for it, then plug it into the new device.
*I say this as a Linux user, which easily opens drives from these converters... Windows may complicate things, because Windows..... but, the converters are cheap, at least.