I have a USB adaptor for laptop IDE drives if you'd like to give that a try.

Its been awhile since I used Thunderbird, but I do remember that its not a simple case of copying the data to a fresh TB install via the FS, you'll need to do some sort if export/import.

Gible

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Andrew Crosby <electrogeek@gmail.com> wrote:
hi

from what i recall it is a standard ide drive in a thin silver box, with a cool plug, you will need to remove these then it will IDE just fine
good luck, if you need more help i may be able to offer assistance, depending on time and whatnot

Cheers

Andrew


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM, David McNab <david@rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:
Hi all,

My wife's (Toshiba Satellite 1130, WinXP) laptop has gone legs-up.
Sometimes manages to partly boot, sometimes not. I'm unable to determine
whether it's the hard disk, or something in the motherboard, or both.
(She's had the laptop 3+ years).

Can anyone please suggest someone in Hamilton who can try to extract her
Thunderbird account data from the disk? (The rest doesn't matter too
much, but the email archive is critical).

We can afford a reasonable fee, but definitely can't afford to dump
hundreds or thousands of $$ into a lengthy disk recovery attempt - just
a quick qualified "It's stuffed" at worst, or a USB stick full of
rescued data at best would suffice.

I'd do it myself but I don't have the hardware here, since the laptop
HDD doesn't have a standard IDE or SATA connection. I tried booting the
laptop from a 'buntu live disk, but am unable to mount the disk from
within Linux.

Cheers
David



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