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Adaman123

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Nov 24, 2015
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Hi,
My Dell laptop will start up, go into recovery mode, it will go trough recovery mode and then say that it couldn't find the problem and that I should try.... I tried all the things in the list and the laptop just reboots and the whole thing happens again. Help please!
Thanks in advance!
 


Says that recovery mode couldn't find the problem and couldn't resolve it and then it just gives me the option to restart the laptop. Once I restart that whole recovery mode process happens again.
 
anything on it you want saved? is it the original hard drive & windows for that laptop? do you have the recovery disk for that laptop? what are you using to post on this site?
 


I want to save the photos of the laptop and some resumes.
It has its original hard drive and windows 7 on it.
I don't have a recovery disk of the laptop.
I am using my pc that I want to put all the photos on from the laptop to post this.
 
is that a desktop\tower & how old is it as hoping it has both sata power & data cables to pull off that laptop hard drive?
 


Its a desktop. It's like 3ish years old.
 


So for the drive enclosure, I put the laptop drive inside of the enclosure and just plug that into my pc through a usb connection?