[access-uk] Re: dead laptop - your help needed

Hi Phil,

Don't give up just yet - please!

My old trusty Toshiba died at the beginning of this year.
Toshiba's repair centre told me it was memory, and wanted to
charge me over £200 to actually reduce the memory from the 2
Gigabytes it had had for over two years, to 512 Megs. (I had
exceeded the machine's memory specification!!)

Well, being a tight fisted Scotsman, I suggested where their
memory could be placed, paid the £35 for their quote, and
had it back.

I bought a USB disk drive adaptor from Maplin, removed the
laptop's hard drive, and was able to get all my data back on
to my desk top system.

And to be honest, I've not bothered to dig deep into what is
or was actually wrong with the Toshiba.  It cost almost a
thousand when I bought it Duty Free at Heathrow four or five
years ago - and much the same spec. comes in at around £350
- £450, including Duty and VAT these days.

In fact I'm now running my wife's old Sony Vaio, which is
even older, and it does most of what I want when I'm on the
road.  That's what I'm using as I write.

George.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil
Stephenson
Sent: 30 July 2008 21:12
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: dead laptop - your help needed

Hi David & All,

Yeah I'M know there's no cd in the drive or other flash card
etc attached so all looking pretty drastic...a new hard
drive, hey ho, just what I need!

Thanks anyway guys..

Anyone got any experience of having this sort of work done
by a company / individual and if so can they pass on their
details..

Cheers,

Phil


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David W Wood
Sent: 30 July 2008 14:49
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: dead laptop - your help needed

Richard:
Provided that you don't have a disk in any of the drives, it
sounds as if the HDD may have failed.

There are clever people about who may be able to put an
external drive onto it with a bootable Linux disk, and
extract the files, but sounds from my more limited
experience than some on the list, that a new HDD may be the
answer.


David W Wood

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil
Stephenson
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:44 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] dead laptop - your help needed

Hi,
 
Bit of a nightmare here as my Toshiba Tecra m3 laptop has
decided to die on me and I know it's a bit of a longshot but
I'm wondering if anyone out there can help?
 
It was working fine until yesterday afternoon from when it's
decided to to not power up when I switch it on.  When I
press the power button I can hear the hard drive click into
place and the fan starts whirring but it doesn't get any
further than that and from what I can tell with the little
vision I have all I am getting is a black screen.  I have
left it on for a while just in case it's restoring itself
but no joy.
 
My wife is away at present until Friday so I've no sighted
assistance easily to hand.  I bought the laptop 3 years ago
this October from PC world but didn't' take out the extra
cover so if it needs to go somewhere to be looked at I'm
going to have to find another place to send it...
 
so there you go, all a bit of a mare...yes I've managed to
profile myself on this old desktop which the wife & kids use
which thankfully still has a copy of Jaws on it but
obviously I'd much rather have my laptop back in action
ASAP.
 
Anyone got any ideas or suggestion?
 
With thanks,
 
Phil
 


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