Laptop destroyed in fire - hard drive still works!

I found this laptop which had been destroyed by a fire in a pile of rubbish in the street. As I thought it looked quite interesting, I took it home with me, and I was amazed to find an intact 320GB hard drive behind the panel at the back! After putting it into an external caddy I was able to access the data, although strangely it wouldn't boot. I was intending to find the owner and send him his files back, but it turned out there was literally nothing of importance on there as I'm guessing the computer had seen little use.

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• melt
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[coolboyisdbest]

what is the os of the small laptop??

[Murderdogs]

@coolboyisdbest It's Ubuntu, a free Linux based operating system for PCs. Very light and fast!

[jytub310]

buy Toshiba



[Kiyubi97]

eine feurige überraschung xD

[BraulsMS]

It`s toshiba, what do you expect? jeje

[TheCalvertz]

@djlobb Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about.

[7991rellik]

@MisterTibTib who would lie about something like that?

[charlycute123]

id lol if the toshiba still worked

[djlobb]

It probably didn't boot off of it because Windows won't boot up if your computer has different hardware in it to what was in the laptop, especially the hard drive controller etc.

would it try to boot and then blue-screen, or did it just not get recognized at all?

[TheEPROM9]

Quite remarkable being as every modern Toshiba computer I know has had ether the HDD die or the OS become corrupt without such damage.

[jacquelinea101]

OMG!! *Cries* Thats My Grandmas Laptop.....

[MisterTibTib]

Why does everyone jump to conclusion and believe that this is real? Who saw him actually take the HD out of it's housing? 

[Ironstringz]

@Murderdogs >GNOME

>light

I don't think so tim