Any way to bring back a computer screen?

[c.tiberius]

Moonpie, when it's your next trip to San Antonio? I've done file recovery before, I might be able to help you.

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[RobertTheTexan]

I don't think it's as complicated as needed to run a utility like File Scavenger or other tools. It sounds like he's viewing the root structure of his hard drive and is having a hard time making sense of it.

Haven't you gotten to your My Pictures or wherever your pics are at by now?
All you have to do at this point is use your Google-Fu.

Here's a search:
https://www.google.com/search?safe=....1.64.mobile-gws-serp..15.10.3171.Dx8T9euUFMI


Here's another link:
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-find-all-photos-stored-on-my-computer

You can look trough at and find instructions to find your files.
It's cakewalk at this point.


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[Dawico]

Pics or........

Yes.

 

[Moonpie]

SUCCESS!!!!!

I tried again and found the "user" file.
Clicked into there and found my pictures! YAY!
They are now on my new computer!
Awesome!
I'm gonna get drunk. HAHAHA!

Now how do I recover pictures from a REALLY old laptop computer? I'm talking 12+yrs old.
I checked it and the drive isn't removable as far as I can tell.

 

[Brains]

Every drive is removable - some just require a little surgery to get there. 12+ isn't really that old either, I still (occasionally) use a laptop at work from that era. What brand and model?

 

[Moonpie]

Every drive is removable - some just require a little surgery to get there. 12+ isn't really that old either, I still (occasionally) use a laptop at work from that era. What brand and model?

SONY VAIO PCG-7162L

It had a virus that messed it up. Any chance the pictures can be retrieved?

Thanks guys for helping on the first one.

 

[Dawico]

Sounds like you have the picture issue all worked out EXCEPT IN THIS THREAD!

 

[Moonpie]

Sounds like you have the picture issue all worked out EXCEPT IN THIS THREAD!

 

[Dawico]

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[TexasBrandon]

12 year old laptops probably run IDE for the connector, you would either need a IDE to SATA adapter or a IDE to USB cable like the SATA one. Every drive from that era is removable. Macs were some of the worst depending on the model you had at the time. You just have to take things apart until you find it. There is google as well as a website called ifixit.

 

[deemus]

My daughter just mentioned that Office Depot does screen repairs.

 

[Brains]

SONY VAIO PCG-7162L
It had a virus that messed it up. Any chance the pictures can be retrieved?

I found similar units in that family, looks like you have to open the case to get to the drive. Bunch of screws on the bottom and away you go.

Depends on the virus and what it did to the files. Lately the game is crypto-locker malware that encrypts your files and holds them for ransom. SOME of these have been cracked and there's software available for free that will recover the files.

 

[RobertTheTexan]

SONY VAIO PCG-7162L

It had a virus that messed it up. Any chance the pictures can be recovered?

Moonpie,

I'm not so sure I would be in a rush to connect that infected drive to your new laptop. Did you deal with that before? Or did you unplug it and put the laptop away. Was it a "virus" virus or something else? (Other malware, ransomeware, worm, Trojan) I'm asking because they each behave differently for example, when you plug in an external drive/thumb drive. Do you remember the timeframe of the virus (or whatever it was) and what you did get rid of it?

If your issue is older than the latest round of malware that's encrypting files I would download Malwarebytes Antimalware and install it. Plug the drive in, once your laptop recognizes the drive, shut down your laptop and do a safe mode boot, and use Malwarebytes to scan the EVERYTHING. (external drive and your laptop). Once that's done, you can access the pics, if they are not encrypted as Brain mentioned. Black Hats hide all sorts of nasty things inside what looks like an innocuous picture. If you can, change your folder view so that you are seeing small previews of the pics. Ignore anything you do not recognize. Do not double-click a pic to see a bigger view. If you can just ignore thosee. Even if you dealt with the virus way back when, I would still use this tool.




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[Moonpie]

That Sony Viao got infected many years ago.
It was old and beat up so I just purchased a new unit and put the Viao away.
I've done nothing with it for at least 8yrs so the current ransomware probably isn't the problem.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

That Sony Viao got infected many years ago.
It was old and beat up so I just purchased a new unit and put the Viao away.
I've done nothing with it for at least 8yrs so the current ransomware probably isn't the problem.

But, as you say, it was infected, and could infect the new one.

 

[RobertTheTexan]

That Sony Viao got infected many years ago.
It was old and beat up so I just purchased a new unit and put the Viao away.
I've done nothing with it for at least 8yrs so the current ransomware probably isn't the problem.

Did I read where you bought a new laptop?
If you did - what AV came installed? (Sorry I'm doing about 30 things today.)

McAfee? Norton?

If this is the case installing another AV application is probably going to create more problems. False flags etc.





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[benenglish]

Did I read where you bought a new laptop?

Yeah, you did, which makes me sorry I'm late to this thread.

If I had gotten here earlier, I would have posted a link ( https://system76.com/laptops ) that would have rendered this question:

If you did - what AV came installed?

...mostly moot.

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[Dawico]

Nice Sig Ben. The one TaT shows.

 

[Dawico]

Still waiting on pics of the screen Moonpie.

 

[RobertTheTexan]

I'd say something but I'm a moot now. Ben told me I was. ;-)


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