rosiedoes | (no subject)

Last night, my laptop died. As in, completely died. I think it was the motherboard (geeks: does that mean it would be likely that I can rescue anything?)

I just reserved a Toshiba A200-15I from PC World and I'm going to collect it shortly, but... gah. Everything was on that laptop. Fortunately, most of my writing has been recently emailed or published, and most of my music is directly from a CD. The stuff I really need but wasn't, is on my MP3player or the upload I send

jackie_brown the other day.

Unfortunately, my photos aren't. I have ton of pictures of my friends, of Vancouver, of the bands I'm into... so, if anyone would like to send me pics, I will love you forever. Thankfully, all the stuff I'm doing for Holy Roman Empire is in emails, as well. That would have been a nightmare. I was already planning on backing that up on Google Docs - seems like I was right about that.

I'm on Mapie's ancient desktop, right now and I just realised how much I hate these things. LAPTOPS FOREVER!

Right, then - I'm off to shower and head to PC World. :(

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

If it was the motherboard, then your HDD should be fine. As long as the laptop didn't die because it died, you should be able to get some kind of data retrieval done to get your stuff back.

Oh god, that sucks. I'm so sorry. *hugs*

Hopefully you'll be able to get everything back. I had a HD failure a couple of years ago and I lost everything. It was devastating. :(

Aww, I hope you manage to get nearly everything back :]

And hope your new laptop is awesome!

:D

If it's the motherboard, you can get stuff from the HD. You'd need a 2.5" USB hard disk enclosure, which, coincidentally, I happen to have. You can either borrow mine, or order your own from Dabs and pay the extortionate postage:
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3V65

Your choice, really. :-)

I have no idea what any of that means, but I now have a Toshiba A200, with 160Gb HD and 2Gb memory, so if the old laptop is capable of it, I'm sure this one is.

I'll see what I can't recover from the web and stuff, but if you wouldn't mind helping, should it come to that, I'll do you a good turn of your choice.

Oh, whoops. Sorry, I should have been clearer!

The enclosure I mentioned and linked to means that you can take the old laptop's hard drive and plug it into the new laptop, then copy off all your old data. It'll be pretty easy to do, although you'll have to have a screwdriver (to get the old hard drive out) and be able to plug in three cables. Then you can copy the lost photos off the drive with ease - just drag & drop!

As I have one here, I'm happy to drop round and do all that for you, provided we can find a convenient time...

(I'm now off out shopping for a suit, so my next reply will be in a few hours.)