Will I Still Have My Files If My Motherboard Broke?

[cloudzero2006]

Basically, my motherboard broke and i've had to order a new one... Once i've installed the new motherboard, will I still have the files on my hard drive, or will they have been deleted?

Help is appreiciated

[anoiel]

they should be there still. unless your hard drive fucked up also.

[DigiJedi]

Depends ... Like what ^^ Said. If the HD is fucked up, then theres no chance of you getting your stuff back.

[D_WeBB]

They should be. Was the mobo fried or something? More then likely they are still safely on your hard drive.

[cloudzero2006]

phewww hope so *fingers crossed*

[ckm1224]

Originally Posted by DigiJedi

Depends ... Like what ^^ Said. If the HD is fucked up, then theres no chance of you getting your stuff back.

there is a chance. i dunno how its done but security officials recover fucked up drives to get data all the time from what i've read.

yeah everything is in the hard drive. if your motherboard somehow screwed your hard drive then it will be a bitch to recover, but i don't see how if ever that could happen. for now don't worry about it, the hard drive is most likely okay. enjoy the new motherboard

[Touhu]

If your harddrive aint fucked up then you still should have them because its where you store all the files, not your MB

[arden05]

All you need to buy is a Hard Drive enclosure (best buy, circuit city).

1) Remove your current hard drive from your laptop or desktop.

2) Put it into your Hard Drive enclosure. Connect the hard Drive enclosure to another computer via usb port.

3) The computer will then treat your Hard Drive enclosure as an external Hard Drive.

4) Now you have access to your files. Copy and paste files to new computer for safe keeping. (You cant transfer over entire program folders and expect installed software from old computer to work).

Hope this helps, propz would be a plus.

[gandooman]

Originally Posted by arden05

All you need to buy is a Hard Drive enclosure (best buy, circuit city).

1) Remove your current hard drive from your laptop or desktop.

2) Put it into your Hard Drive enclosure. Connect the hard Drive enclosure to another computer via usb port.

3) The computer will then treat your Hard Drive enclosure as an external Hard Drive.

4) Now you have access to your files. Copy and paste files to new computer for safe keeping. (You cant transfer over entire program folders and expect installed software from old computer to work).

Hope this helps, propz would be a plus.

I was going to suggest something similar. My desktop was messed up and so I decided to boot from another disk drive I had lying around, and I actually managed to plug in two HDDs at once and just transfer my files over that way.

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Originally Posted by DigiJedi

Depends ... Like what ^^ Said. If the HD is fucked up, then theres no chance of you getting your stuff back.

nowadays you can recover data from a fucked up HD but it's expensive, if you have important stuff in your HD and have money you should go to a store where they fix computers and they will recover it for you, but if you don't have the money or what you got in your HD isn't extremely important than you should just buy another one.