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[rosiedoes]

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. :(

Comments

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

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.

[nikitaquincy.livejournal.com]

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. :(

[kookykay.livejournal.com]

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

And hope your new laptop is awesome!

:D

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

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. :-)