Slave hard drive from computer that will not boot

Hi Michelle, don't rush into slaving your hard drive, have you tried booting from safe mode or do you get the error before you can even choose to do so? A rescue disc may solve such a problem so you will be able to access your computer and backup your HD.

Using a recovery disk doesn't mean you necessarily need to delete your hard drive. If you could boot your computer, saving the data may become much easier. In order to slave your HD, you should disassemble it from your laptop and attach it using a SATA or IDE cable to another computer.

You can remove the drive from your laptop and hook it up to another computer as a slave. The slave position has to be defined in the bios and also by the sequence of the jumpers on your motherboard.