Install Slax on hard drive. Boot Slax from a USB keydrive. Create and format a Linux partition on the hard drive (eg. Cd to /slax/boot, and run bootinst. Bat (not bootinst.sh?), which will install Grub in the MBR. Reboot while removing the USB keydrive. Jan 28, 2015 Slax on USB device or hard disk In order to run Slax from USB device or from hard drive, you should download Slax as a ZIP archive. When downloaded, extract the ZIP archive directly to your disk's root directory. It will create a single folder /slax/ on your device.
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If you are unable to access your hard drive, keep calm. Here are four ways to access your data without OS. Even your system crashes, you can still access data by following the four methods below. Besides, you can also recover data from hard drive with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard bootable media software.
'What's the best way to access my HP laptop's hard drive to recover data when the OS won't boot?'
'I've got a computer from my friend but the user password was lost. I'd like to recover some data from the HDD. I assume that there should be a way to copy data from a hard disk without OS.'
Do you know how many ways of getting data off from a hard drive without booting into Windows? To get data from an unbootable computer, first of all, you must find approaches to access hard disk without OS. You can take the 4 ways here to easily access hard disk data without OS to access all data.
No 1. Recover Hard Drive on Another Computer
Sometimes it's just Windows OS corruption that makes your hard drive fail to boot. Great, you can just take out the drive from the dead computer and connect it to another computer. If you can access the hard drive normally, go ahead to backup hard drive data.
No 2. Put Your Hard Drive in a Freezer
What if it's the hard drive problem that disables the boot? Try putting it in a freezer. Many hard drives that stopped working can be brought back to life. It's not a permanent solution to fix a non-bootable hard drive, however, at least somebody says that it worked for about 20 minutes, which gives enough time for them to copy everything on the drive.
NO 3. Copy Hard Drive Files from the Command Prompt
Or, if you had a Windows installation media at hand, try to boot Windows from the bootable disc or USB drive. Invoke Windows Command Prompt so that you can use robocopy to easily copy all folders and files on the selected drive. Enter the following command:
- The /e modifier tells robocopy to include all subdirectories. This includes empty folders.
- robocopy will automatically copy hidden and system files. It will create new directories if they don't exist at the target location.
No 4. Recover Data from Hard Drive with EaseUS
The last method to access the hard disk and recover data without booting into the Windows operating system is to boot your hard drive from a third-party OS. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard WinPE Edtion is recommended. It is an ideal choice to recover data from hard drive without booting into Windows, recover data from dead hard drive and computer that won't boot.
Tip - Be sure that you have a CD/DVD-Recorder and a CD/DVD or USB drive which can be written. Then, follow the steps below:
Step 1. Create a bootable disk.
Prepare an empty USB. If you have important data on it, copy the data to another device. When you create a bootable disk, the data on the USB will be erased. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard WinPE Edition will help you create a bootable disk. Connect the USB drive to PC, launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard WinPE Edition. Select the USB drive and click 'Proceed' to create a bootable disk.
Step 2. Boot from the bootable USB.
Connect the bootable disk to PC that won't boot and change your computer boot sequence in BIOS. For most users, it works well when they restart their computer and press F2 at the same time to enter BIOS. Set to boot the PC from 'Removable Devices' (bootable USB disk) or 'CD-ROM Drive' (bootable CD/DVD) beyond Hard Drive. Press 'F10' to save and exit.
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Step 3. Recover files/data from a PC/laptop hard drive that won't boot.
When you boot from the USB, you can run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard from the WinPE bootable disk. Select the drive you want to scan to find all your lost files.
Click Scan to start the scanning process.
Recover data from the computer or laptop. After the scan completed, you can preview all recoverable files, select the targeted files, and click the 'Recover' button to restore your files. You'd better save all of the recovered data to another place to avoid data overwriting.