I.II.I Special - What if your drive is a Notebook/Laptop drive?
If you need to recover data from a Notebook or Laptop drive, you can either
1. Remove the drive from the Laptop/Notebook and attach it to the IDE-cable of a Desktop computer. You'll
need to find out how to remove the drive from your computer, normally with modern Notebooks/Laptops
the drives are removable and it's just a screw or two to get them out. Don't forget - always power down
your computer before you remove hardware. As soon as you've managed to remove the drive you'll need
a Notebook-to-IDE-adaptor which you can get at any computer store for under $15. Jumper your drive as
a slave and connect it via this adaptor to any Windows computer.
2. An alternative is to create a WinPE/BartPE boot disk and run GetDataBack from there. This is more
complicated, but works just as well and is an option if you cannot remove the drive from the Notebook.
Please be aware that later on you need sufficient space on another drive to copy the recovered data to.
This can for example be an USB-Drive that you attach to the Notebook or a Network drive. You'll find
detailed information on how to create a WinPE/BartPE boot disk on our website at
http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm.
3. A simpler option is booting the Notebook from our ready-to-use Runtime Live CD. This CD-ROM has
GetDataBack preinstalled. You can download the ISO image from our Website at
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm.
