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Phoenix
Created : 25 July 2008
 
System : Cross Platform

No computer

It went kaboom.

So my laptop finally died, because I used my USB recording device to kill it off somehow. I don't really know why it happened, as my hardware knowledge is quite bad, but apparently my motherboard is gone. All I did was to plug it into the USB hole and then turn the device off, and the screen went black.

The worst part about this is that I had all my stuff on the laptop; my photos, my music, my code -- everything. And if I can't recover that from the harddrive I'm going to be an unhappy man.

 

Comments


Friday, 25 July 2008, 09:10
mike_g
Bummer. I feel for you. When my old lappy broke it was an emotional time, lol. I wouldent worry about your HD tho as you can buy a case to use a laptop HD as an external HD, you dont need a power cord either, it just eats off 2 USB port.

You should also be able to make a fair amount of money selling scavanged bits. Spare screens can go for quite a bit. Then theres the battery, charger, ram, dvd drive, and whatever else you can break off it
Friday, 25 July 2008, 09:30
spinal

Friday, 25 July 2008, 09:34
Jayenkai
Yet another "You must back things up" reminder.
..

Meh, I'll backup later!

Maybe.


Hope you can get your stuff off the HD, Phoenix!
Friday, 25 July 2008, 09:43
spinal
Laptop drives are quite happy to work after weird things happen to them, losing power shouldn't bother it too much. Recently i accidentally dissconnected my main laptop drive while the thing was switched on! both the laptop and the drive were fine.