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Q&A: How can I transfer photos from a dead laptop to a new one?

Posted on January 5, 2025

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Question from Barbara: Rick, my two year old laptop wouldn’t come on the other day so I took it to the Geek Squad to have it checked out.

Long story short, they said the motherboard was bad and that it wasn’t worth fixing, so I bought a new laptop.

The problem is I have literally thousands of photos on the dead laptop’s hard drive that I desperately want to get off of it and onto my new Laptop. [Read more…]

Review: Stellar Data Recovery Professional

Posted on June 25, 2024

If you’ve been using computers for a while you’ve probably experienced the loss of irreplaceable data at some point in the past.

After all, hard drives go belly-up, flash drives become corrupted and unreadable, viruses render computers unbootable and all manner of other disasters strike when we are least expecting them.

That’s why it’s so important to always have a high-quality data recovery tool at your disposal.

I recently had the opportunity to test and evaluate Stellar Data Recovery Professional, one of the most popular and highly-rated data recovery solutions that’s available today. [Read more…]

How to recover lost files after emptying the Recycle Bin in Windows 10

Posted on March 28, 2024

Emptying the Recycle Bin in Windows 10 is a very simple process. However, while it seems too easy to run, it can cause more harm than good.

You may be dealing with a jammed storage right now and want to create more space by deleting files. This is an okay idea.

When you delete files that are taking up space, they will go to the Recycle Bin automatically. And, since they still utilize space in the Recycle Bin, you may want to follow them there and empty the Recycle Bin once and for all.

If this is what you did and you are wondering where some of your files are, then that needs urgent attention. Which is why we have prepared this article. [Read more…]

3 ways to recover the files from a dead PC

Posted on October 25, 2023

I receive hundreds of tech questions every week, and the one I seem to get asked most often is how to retrieve the files from the hard drive after a PC goes belly-up.

My answer always depends on which part of the computer has failed.

If the hard drive itself is the component that died, you’ll have to either send the drive off to a data recovery service or purchase a data recovery software utility and attempt to recover the files yourself. [Read more…]