Yes the laptop was handed to me by a friend – it was one of their business models – so data was far more important than a 3+ year old jobbie. Bought in PC World brand new and of course they didn’t bother with the ‘make a backup DVD of the OS etc’.
I 100% trust the owner and his company BUT after realising that there was precious little I could do with the HDD in situe, I took it out – as a business item – it’s tax deductible and after4 years – value = £0, but data was valuable.
Having got it out and played about with it I was eventually able to read off the data and recover some 60GB off of it. Thinks … lets try to install a new copy of W10 from Media Creator tool BUT no W10 or W7 licence sticker attached!! They didn’t know what the original OS was 7 or 10, Home, Prof or what so a bit stuck, MS were excellent I read out a few numbers on the PC but they were not licence numbers, having thought about it they said that if they gave me a case reference and I could obtain the original PC World receipt they could tell me the original OS. The guy at MS couldn’t have been more helpful.
TBH in getting the thing apart some of the interconnecting wires became damaged, but having been told “data, data data and sod the PC”, I wasn’t too worried, in fact I’ve been told to bin it already as the data has been recovered. Strange the lack of the MS sticker on it – no trace where it might have been or worn off either.
The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans
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