This is a del inspire on it seems some better days.

It's got a broken him check.

Even the chassis is cracked, but that's okay.

This has been around the world a couple of times.

It's even been on an Afghanistan military deployment.

So yeah, that's Afghan dirt that you're seeing.

Probably.

But you've heard me talk about this before.

This is for my brother, who is a, uh, retired military veteran.

And I got basically it handed to me and was like, Hey, it doesn't work anymore.

But we've got really important pictures would like to get off of here, So can you please save those?

I was like, Yes, I can save those.

In fact, I'm not trying to you one better.

I'm gonna try and save the machine.

It's not really worth saving, but, hey, they can let their they can let their five year old pound away on the keyboard or something.

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First and foremost, we have to understand what the problems are Now.

This is an old T 4400 based Pentium dual core, loosely based upon the core two duo architecture.

But here's what we're dealing with right here it works.

And in typical fashion, you know when when somebody who's not, you know, really versed in computers hands, you compete with a problem, you go.

What's wrong that they go?

It's just not working.

You're like, Well, what doesn't work?

And they go, Well, it doesn't start now.

That could mean maybe the picture isn't coming up.

Maybe computers and power on.

In our case, it will sit right here loading for the longest time.

And then what happens is it basically tells us that we have a corrupt, um, boot sector.

Basically, it just actually gives you a boot error and like an error code and the whole deal, when I love, though, is the built in diagnostics.

And let me show you this part because I feel like I'm playing an old, like a dork turn based video game.

It's all text based.

That sounds like I'm playing an old school game, man.

If we go all the way back to, like yeah, yeah, who remembers?

Remembers when this was the sound effects you got in games.

So what this is basically telling me is that it actually detected an error the last time.

The last time it tried to boot.

Self test Self test log contains previous errors.

The given air coded message complete can be used by Dell Technical support to help diagnose a problem.

All right, we just want to continue.

Yes, we're going to eat now.

It's testing the optical drive.

This has an optical drive and a PCMCIA slot.

And it was a pretty massive slot back there.

It is right there.

Yeah, this whole giant car that was about that long would slide into that socket in.

And that was actually how you had hot swappable devices in a laptop.

What's funny about that now?

Because everything's just done through either Thunderbolt USB three, Type C whatever Look VJ test.

We're color bars displayed like that like that font.

So we're going to board this.

But I just thought that was interesting little piece of information to show you that this had actually a built in diagnostic and it did catch the air.

The air I caught was actually just previously logged error, saying Windows wouldn't boot.

Now this was updated the windows 10.

Thank God he actually participated in the free windows upgrade.

Because had this been an old Windows Vista machine or, God forbid, a Windows EMI, which I highly doubt I think this was initially the next machine.

I think I could be wrong.

I don't have boot drives or boot discs for any of those operating system.

Sure, I could easily go online and get it, but because this is Windows 10 we might actually have a chance of recovering it through my Windows 10 disc right here.

So we're gonna try this first.

See, this is why I say Look, it's on Windows 10.

Here's the problem.

It'll sit here on preparing automatic repair forever.

It does not move from this point.

A couple of things this could mean one.

It could just be a corrupted sector of the hard drive that destroyed the boot loader.

Or it could be a bad hard drive.

Pull together?

I don't know.

So yeah, we just need to make sure Windows doesn't automatically wipe itself, Which it can do.

What about What about Bob?

Well, my one woman what is it gonna boot off this?

We don't want set up, though.

We won't retire.

Because if I do set up, that's gonna that's gonna screw us because it will wipe the drive, so, you know, set up 64 bit.

We're gonna tell it to repair.

If it can't repair, then, um, we'll do that.

We'll do it.

The easy way to take the drive out, offload the pictures, and then go from there.

So we've been sitting here for a while, and it's just not actually loading.

You have a cursor.

It was actually loading a menu.

So here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna go and play it safe, and we are going to shut this down.

We're gonna open it up, take the hard drive out, use one of my hot swaps, leads from my animals, which is just a state of two napkins drive thing, and then we are going to recover the data.

Make sure that's nice and safe, and then we'll see if we get this working again.

But that is a secondary mission.

Objective primary mission objective is to save the pictures.

Otherwise, then you're dealing with an upset sister who's known to get emotional at simple things.

Imagine losing priceless, irreplaceable photos that way.

At the end of all this, I'm like, What's this?

It wasn't just The thing is like, uh, now this is the atom Most Dr Slide for two and 1/2 inch Seita drives.

It's not meant for computers like the sense we're about to use it, but it's nothing more than a hot swap Dr that has a sled that's designed to go into the animals.

But this will work with any drive, and as you can see, it has the SLA kits and slots and all you need.

There's nothing actually mount this down, so you don't wanna lift it up and break it if you've never broken one.

These tabs is they're extremely brittle plastic, so you just slide it in like so, and then it terminates to a USB three point.

Oh, and this one right here is actually for supplemental power.

So you have USB three point out and in a little bit extra power going through there.

So we're gonna plug this in right now, navigate the extremely unnerving contents of my sister in law's hard drive and with the ASU computer side by side.

In contrast, it's kind of insane, given how far we've come in the last nine years in laptop technology.

So it's actually a partition on this drive right here.

So we're seeing local disk D and local disc F.

It's indexing it right now, but so far we're not getting any sort of capacity is show up.

And that worries me a little bit, because if this drive is completely corrupted, I don't have the tools necessary to extract the contents from it.

Now there are companies and sources out there that you could send a hard drive to, and they can recover lost data even from bad sectors.

I personally don't have the ability to do that, so but ends up going that route today.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to show the results of that.

So the recovery partitions showed up, but the local disc F is still not and what's interesting is the recovery is half full.

But what we noticed right now as we're sitting here waiting and waiting and waiting.

But the drive is not actually turning.

Oh, yes, it is.

Something is not right with this Dr which we kind of already expected.

Right?

So we're looking to the performance graph for the drive, and you could see it goes up Thio 100% usage here, right?

Actually, active time.

This drive has probably been completely just It could have been shocked really bad.

I mean, there's all kinds of things that could have happened with this, but you see here read speed, right speed.

It's just completely sitting here doing nothing with active time.

So I'm thinking this drive might unfortunately be unrecoverable by me.

Anyway, I feel bad, though, because I'm trying.

I want to get these photos off of here.

But I can't make me look like a little glimpse of life for a split second there and then stopped.

No, that might be why Windows continues to fail the boot.

Because we saw update repair, trying right and update.

Repair automatically happens if it sees what two or three failed boots automatically.

Which means this Dr could've just been shutting down in the middle of the boot process.

I'm gonna make the call.

I'm gonna make the call to the cysts.

Wil j survive.

Well, unfortunately, guys, this is a fail video.

They happen every now and then.

I love those videos that have the happy ending where everything worked.

But it's not a total loss, because I took the 7200 rpm one terabyte drive, which is a bit of an upgrade from her 250 50 gig, 4 55 5400 rpm.

Jeez, numbers, hard talking.

And I wouldn't put that inside of her system.

And we're now installing Windows 10 which means now, at least this will still work.

Hardware wise, there's no problem with this, so at least has a silver lining because we were able to get ah, working computer for her once again.

But I guess this is a lesson in keeping backups of things that really really matter to you.

Phil, we need to back up our design elements folder on my computer that has, like everything we youth, you guys wanna go.

I wish this had a happy ending.

Unfortunately, now my sister gets to experience with the recovery is like when you send it off to a specialist.

So yeah, no idea that's gonna cost her.

But she's not too happy.

Lesson learned in backing up your important data.

So hopefully next time we can have a happy ending.

Not that kind of happy you don't know.

We don't pay for the happy ending this time around.

I should have.

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