Jeff Jolley
Well-Known Member
Ok no laughing... well maybe just a little
No Razzing... again gotta feeling that's coming
But I need some advice
Here goes... true story and now I need help
I'm outside this afternoon with the XCal3 hooked up to the truck. I decide to take the laptop and hook it up and check out a little data logging. I'm setting up a couple things and just marveling at the ways the engine and tranny are controlled by the ecm on the new vehicles.
Well I'm done playing so I decide to disconnect and wrap everything up
I unplug the cable from the laptop and standing outside the truck because I had the computer laying in the seat I decide to lay the laptop on the driveway ( which is a bit narrow)
I sit in the seat and disconnect the XCal from the truck and proceed to wrap the cables up nicely.
At this point my daughter comes out and says I have a call so I jump out of the Trac and go in to get the phone. Passing my wife on the way in she asks if I needed anything from Target.
My reply of course was no so I went on in and grabbed the phone, started talking to a friend and headed back out to the Trac.
Just as I come out of the door into the garage I see my wife smile and give me a wave as she backs her car out of the driveway right over top of my laptop. Now if we had been argueing, or I had ticked her off, I would swear that she did it on purpose. But I think it is the fact that it was on the passenger side on the car and she just didn't see it. I mean who's gonna think to look for a laptop lying in the driveway.
This all happened in slow motion, as I looked down to see the right front tire of her FX35 slowly roll over the key board diagonally from the left lower corner to the right upper corner and I swear I could hear each one of the keys sqeal as the tire rolled over them.
I can't quite describe the feeling this gave me:throwup:, but here's where I need help. We had alot of pictures and info on the computer such as banking and financial both personal and business.
I was able to save the hardrive and it appears unscathed for the most part. The computer however didn't make it, a total loss, no signs of life at all and I mean zero.
Is there a device we can purchase to plug the hard drive into and extract the information we need from it? Or is it possible to to put it into another laptop and transfer the info to an external drive? Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Ok let the remarks fly, I deserve it.
No Razzing... again gotta feeling that's coming
But I need some advice
Here goes... true story and now I need help
I'm outside this afternoon with the XCal3 hooked up to the truck. I decide to take the laptop and hook it up and check out a little data logging. I'm setting up a couple things and just marveling at the ways the engine and tranny are controlled by the ecm on the new vehicles.
Well I'm done playing so I decide to disconnect and wrap everything up
I unplug the cable from the laptop and standing outside the truck because I had the computer laying in the seat I decide to lay the laptop on the driveway ( which is a bit narrow)
I sit in the seat and disconnect the XCal from the truck and proceed to wrap the cables up nicely.
At this point my daughter comes out and says I have a call so I jump out of the Trac and go in to get the phone. Passing my wife on the way in she asks if I needed anything from Target.
My reply of course was no so I went on in and grabbed the phone, started talking to a friend and headed back out to the Trac.
Just as I come out of the door into the garage I see my wife smile and give me a wave as she backs her car out of the driveway right over top of my laptop. Now if we had been argueing, or I had ticked her off, I would swear that she did it on purpose. But I think it is the fact that it was on the passenger side on the car and she just didn't see it. I mean who's gonna think to look for a laptop lying in the driveway.
This all happened in slow motion, as I looked down to see the right front tire of her FX35 slowly roll over the key board diagonally from the left lower corner to the right upper corner and I swear I could hear each one of the keys sqeal as the tire rolled over them.
I can't quite describe the feeling this gave me:throwup:, but here's where I need help. We had alot of pictures and info on the computer such as banking and financial both personal and business.
I was able to save the hardrive and it appears unscathed for the most part. The computer however didn't make it, a total loss, no signs of life at all and I mean zero.
Is there a device we can purchase to plug the hard drive into and extract the information we need from it? Or is it possible to to put it into another laptop and transfer the info to an external drive? Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Ok let the remarks fly, I deserve it.
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