freemanwin@exti.com wrote:
> My Toshiba M35 is giving me the BSOD when I
> boot ..UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME ... I can't boot from an XP CD I
> guess because Toshiba only supplies a 'Recovery CD' which will
> reformat my HD ..... is there a way that I can take the HD out of my
> laptop and get an external HD enclosure that will let me plug it into
> another laptop as a secondary drive, perhaps as a USB drive, so that I
> could run chkdsk/f against it to try to repair any file system damage
> that might be there and maybe recover some files before I am forced to
> reformat it.
>
> I really appreciate any feedback anyone can give. I can't believe that
> my only option is to reformat and lose all my files ( I know, I know,
> do backups, but its a tad late for that!)
>

I do this frequently with notebook drives. www.newegg.com for examples
of drive enclosures of all kinds.

Q