okay theres some bad news and some worse news.... both are the same... The lovely heatwave england is enjoying has claimed its first victim... Chronos my dualcore HP laptop died today.... Hopefully I can save the data otherwise bye bye wonderful detailed nacelle and other such goodies.
Dude, with luck it's the mobo.. if you didn't have TPM enabled on that system, you can still pull data off the drives, or run them as externals on a working system.
Just need an IDE or SATA to USB adapter (or dock) that can handle the 2.5 drives from a laptop. It's my line of work, I do this all the time.
Even if it's the drives, 80 percent of the time you can still get data off. So don't give up hope, most of the time you can still get a lot of it back.
Question is, do you have a reliable system that you can work on.. and restore data to?