Basically I use my laptop for itunes, pics and internet.
Unless the hard disk has packed in completely chances are that taking it out of the original laptop and installing it in another one or as an external USB drive will give you access to the files. Or maybe even booting the laptop off a live CD Linux distribution. Etc.Looks like my PB laptop (only 3 years old) is dead. Have it at a computer rescue place in the hope that my files (pics and itunes not backed up - silly girl!) are not all lost.
I just got an asus eee, for about €330
Unless the hard disk has packed in completely chances are that taking it out of the original laptop and installing it in another one or as an external USB drive will give you access to the files. Or maybe even booting the laptop off a live CD Linux distribution. Etc.
Who said that?It does sound a big suspicious that they can't get the files off
That seems to be a pretty good price! They must have just got a delivery of them. They've been fairly hard to get over the last few weeks.Elara have one Eee PC model for about €290. I'm not familiar with all the different hardware specifications/options so am not sure how this rates in terms of bang per buck.
Unless the hard disk has packed in completely chances are that taking it out of the original laptop and installing it in another one or as an external USB drive will give you access to the files. Or maybe even booting the laptop off a live CD Linux distribution. Etc.
Do you mean low diskspace issues?Basically I had been having low memory issues
If you could not get to the BIOS configuration screen then my first inclination would have been to try booting off a live CD of some sort (e.g. a GNU/Linux distribution) to see what happened. If that didn't work then I would have considered taking the hard drive out and installing it as an external USB drive in another laptop/PC to see if I could read it. But if this sort of stuff is beyond you then you did the right thing in seeking professional assistance.Guy (recommended by another IT professional) who has it says that there's a major issue if the computer is not recognising the hard drive but he will do his best.
My main reason for considering a MacBook is battery life. My now dead laptop had a battery life of only about 2 hours at its peak. Given that we travel a lot a 2 hour battery isn't very useful on a 10 hour flight.
My OH is a student at the mo so I could get the Apple student discount on a MacBook which would help a bit.
One of cable sets, a snip @ around €11 (delivered), will allow you to connect the laptop drive to another PC as an external device and unless it's totally horlicks'ed it should be detected and assigned a drive letter so you can copy your stuff off. Oh, I wouldn't buy a mac, IMHO they're over priced, over hyped and less reliable; I also dislike the OS.Looks like my PB laptop (only 3 years old) is dead. Have it at a computer rescue place in the hope that my files (pics and itunes not backed up - silly girl!) are not all lost.
That does not necessarily mean that the hard disk cannot be extracted from the laptop and attached to another machine via USB allowing the files to be recovered. Also while the laptop may not boot right now that doesn't necessarily mean that it's junk either.Thanks but that's not a runner as the laptop won't power on past the start up screen.
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