Dell Inspiron N5110 - Help Please

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GeneraznXz

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Hello,

The title is the laptop I have. It has an corrupted OS and unable to repair. I would like to save the data on the hard drive but it is a pain to just to remove the hard drive and dock it into a HDD dock.

I watched a video and someone mentioned about connecting the laptop to act as an external drive. i would like to ask how can I go about doing that without using an enclosure and have the laptop to act as an enclosure instead?

Any information is appreciated. It is definitely a journey removing the HDD from this laptop.

Thank you!

Happy Holiday!
 
I have the same laptop and found the "corrupt OS" to be a failed harddrive. Follow voyagers instructions and copy your info over.. Then deal with it..
 
Thank you for your response! I will give that a try. I seen Hiren's boot before but never used it. Definitely worth a shot because you literally have to part out every piece of the laptop to get the HDD out :(
 
Yeah, the new Inspirons suck. I had the luxury of replacing a Hard Drive last month on one. Had to tear it down all the way to the motherboard as the drive is attached to the bottom of the board. If you can boot the laptop, the inspirons have a built in utility to test the drive. All you need to do is press the F12 button on startup and it will boot to the utility. Error codes are usually 2000-0146 or 2000-0142 if the drive is bad. If there are no error codes then its a windows issue.

What exactly happens when you turn the machine on? Does the system try booting and then just restarts or what? If it boots and then restarts, you can disable the restart feature to where it will give you a blue screen code. Boot to safe mode options and highlight "disable automatic restart on system failure" and hit enter. The error on the blue screen could "unmountable boot volume" or some other code. Let us know what it is. Unmountable boot volume just means there are errors on the drive and can usually be fixed. You would need to run the drive manufacturers disk diagnostic utility.
 
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