Re: OT laptop died
- From: "nzlstar*" <fancyfroggin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:08:32 +1300
i dont know diddly squat about laptops and dd and her geek b/f have gone to the
beach and/or hiking in the hills adjacent to the beach til probably around 7pm
so no help from them.
i was wondering if you think the h/d is ok, can you remove it and try it in a
desktop or other laptop to see if is still working. that said, will it negate
your warrantee if you do that?
hmmmmm, tricky one. i fiddle with the workings on this puter when needed. if its
still under warrantee i call and they will walk me thru the workings to see what
they think is wrong with it.
what does happen when you try to reboot?
is it a plain blue screen with nothing at all on it?
does it have some text come up but wont boot the whole puter up?
more info might give someone on here more chance of helping.
i've done the blue screen but it was so long ago i forget now what was wrong,
could of been needing to reload windows tho. that was when i found out i should
never ever ever use the default folders on windows to save any files i might
ever want to see again.
if i reload windows the default folders will overwrite anything left in those
and i'm toast.
so now i always start up a new folder for Jeanne, then inside that put Quilting,
Business, Family etc folders.
not that it helped me this last time when the damn h/d died completely and it
was out of warrantee.
i'm convinced they build a lifetime just outside the warrantee time into the h/d
and/or other parts on the puter so you have to buy more stuff...doing it just to
drive us all bonkers.
worked on me.
boing boing boing!!!!!
lost in cyberspace but that aint nuttin new,
j.
"Kate G." <grovesfam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you think the contents of the hard drive are intact -- you might consider
hitting Best Buy Geek Squad (or the equivalent) and having them copy off as
many files as possible. It may cost you a few dollars (like $100 or so) --
but depending upon what you may lose... may be well worth the price.
When my hard drive crashed (I did have warning) -- they were able to recover
nearly 90 percent of everything (hundreds and hundreds of pictures, word docs,
excel docs, my bookmarks and more!
Worth EVERY PENNY! (to me it was anyway!)
--
Kate in MI
http://community.webshots.com/user/K_Groves
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"Anne Rogers" <annekh23@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On the morning of Christmas Eve, my laptop failed to reboot. There had
been no warning of problems, it's only 7 months old and all the
indications are that it's a hardware, not a software issue, so it's
still under warranty, but that's still a huge palava to go through. DH
has access to a fair amount of stuff to figure out what's going wrong
and it looks like it's some kind of issue accessing the hard drive,
rather than the drive itself being destroyed, but we fear that when we
pick up the phone the process might force us to attempt to reformat
the drive, either that, or we'll be forced to hand the machine over to
them and they will have no respect for data, only to get the thing
working at minimum cost to them.
Thankfully I haven't really lost any data, it's much more settings and
frustration, I can read my email online, but I had things set up to
make it easier/faster. Same with newsgroups, google groups is
horrendous when you're used to a reasonable reader.
It's a brand of laptop I've not had before and it's only been used at
home, unlike previous computers, it's not been round the world a few
times! Which means I don't really want it replaced, because I don't
trust it and even though I don't rely on it for work or anything, I do
use it an awful lot for communication and for entertainment.
It might mean I quilt more - I usually listen to the radio via the
computer to wind down at bedtime, so on Christmas Eve at 10pm I was
stomping around all frustrated and ended up deciding I'd put together
a small quilt for DS, I've had the fabric around for a while, it's
spiderman and I'd fussy cut 4.5in squares and I had some plan in mind
- but I'd forgotten it, I did some measureing and ended up just doing
a regular straight straight setting with just the squares as my
blocks, with inch wide sashing from one FQ, then wham bam another one
for a border and I had a 27" square quilt top done, I was going to
carry on working, but I couldn't fix on what to use as a batting, so I
went to bed. I ended up locating a backing and basting it at bedtime
last night and have already been to the store today and bought glow in
the dark thread, I'm planning on quilting it with a massive spiders
web!
Anne
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