Posted 2/21/2022 13:39 (#9517115 - in reply to #9517075) Subject: RE: Asus laptop
39.48, -82.98
You might try booting to Linux on a thumb drive. I don't know how far it's getting before giving up...but if it searches a USB drive first, you can see and transfer files using Linux.
Another possibility is to add this computer's hard drive as a secondary drive on another machine.