Itunes Recovery..

[nomad9491]

Hey guys,


I am busting my head over here trying to figure out how to do this.. to make a long story short, I've had a very unlucky past few weeks. My iphone (4g 32gb) fell into the ocean and all the data I had is lost. But then I rememberd I can still recover it from the itunes backup. Ordered a new phone.. the phone just came and before I could do a recovery from it we had a power outage and my laptop got fried. I've been told that the motherboard is fried and since it was an old laptop I didnt bother trying to fix it. (I switched to a MacBook Pro early this year - although the syncing was done on the windows laptop). So.. I took apart the laptop, took the hard disk and connected it to an external USB enclosure. I can access all the data from the hard disk. My question is, can I use this hard disk to do a recovery on the iphone? The old laptop was running on Windows 7. I have access to another laptop with windows 7 & windows xp & mac OSX Lion


-I've already tried booting from the hard disk, it wouldnt boot.. I keep getting the blue screen of death.


As long as I can get the contacts, sms's and photos on the new iphone im good.


Thank you in advance for your feed back!

[Raymond]

iTunes backups are saved to the location below by default.
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

What you can do is try connecting the hard drive to a working computer, and download the software iPhone Backup Extractor. Make sure you change the default folder to the one that is on your external hard drive.
http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/

[nomad9491]

YOU ARE THE MAN RAYMOND!!

I had done it manually without the iphone backup extractor.. (before I SAW YOUR POST) - could have saved me heaps of time..

thanks mate!!

[JayCub]

you made my last few weeks look great nomad, haven't seen that run of bad luck in along time... hope your all sorted out.

[nomad9491]

Hey.. I finally managed to do it. Thank you everyone ))