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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??

If it won’t turn on just buy the proper battery and battery charger replacement and buy it from a place that allows returns including the shipping. If it’s something else chances are it’s too expensive or not worth fixing. You can also just pull the hardrive and get a usb adapter to save the information. I have one but just wiped clear old laptop hardrives to use as backup storage. So I have not tried to recover anything like you are. I’m sure plenty of others on CP can give you more advice and suggestions my experience is limited