expensive paper weight

[graham.hobart]

Not happy!!
last July splurged on an expensive lappie to use in the obs. Now totally defunct -emits high pitched beep and won't start up. Harvey Norman reckon the hard drive has gone. So there goes my TSX/NEB/PHD/Maxim/ etc etc
Arrghh! (Toshiba Qosmio)
good job it is under warranty but such a PITA to replace all my hard earned software.
Not happy :sadeyes:

Graz

[Barrykgerdes]

I can top that! I bought an expensive laptop in June and wrecked it ten minutes after I turned it on. I had not even had time to down load the repair discs before I killed the startup system! At least I had not installed any programs that could not be replaced.

Had to order a set of start up discs and wait 3 weeks for them to arrive. Cost me $66 as it wasn't covered by warranty.

Barry

[brian nordstrom]

:mad2: I here you , I have all my stuff backed up on a 500gb external hard drive , I went to download some more stuff into it the other day ,,,,,,,that same BEEP! you get Graham and nothing ??? :shrug: .
I took it to the local computer shop and guess what ? ..
As you Graham , hard drive gone ?? GRRRR :mad2: , man it only gets used to put stuff in ,, and sits in the cupboard %99 of the time , rubbish ! .

The Tech's words of wisdom were ,, get this .

Do you have a back up ? :lol: ,, NO , this is my back up , silly bugger .
Years of photos , music gone without a trace ! :sadeyes: it sux! .

Brian.

[chiaroscuro]

Mmmmmmmmmm, solar flares maybe??;)

[adman]

A backup implies that there is an original....you didn't keep the only copy on the external hard drive did you? :question:

[tlgerdes]

Yeah, but yours was self inflicted. :P

[Regulus]

Graham, use someone's computer to grab Puppy Linux onto a CD and boot your laptop with that in the cd drive (u should be able to get into the bios on boot up to set the cd drive to bootable still).
It will boot to a windows like graphic user interface and load mouse drivers etc. If your hdd is readable it will read it.
It might let you do some repair. At the very least you can get files off onto USB stick or dvd.
It got me out of a spot on two occasions

http://puppylinux.org/main/Download%20Latest%20Release.htm.

[E_ri_k]

I know that noise too well....My Toshiba laptop HD died, then the replacement did the same! Decided to go SSD this time. So far so good....