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Name: srloren
My son's laptop screen failed. He took it to a local laptop shop for the repair. The tech said that based on the description of the problem that it was the inverter that failed. They ordered and installed a new one but now he says it is the screen that needs replacement for $600. more. My son wants to copy his data on the drive to another laptop, but the guy said that he needs to find out how to take control of the hard drive? Have you ever heard of this? My thought was to take his hard drive out and connect it to my computer as a slave and hopefully my bios will recognize it, then copy the data to another hard drive that I have and then somehow transfer it to the laptop. Besides Windows XP Pro he has Microsoft Office Pro 2003 and his drive that contains the data is almost full. Any suggestions as to an easier way to perform this from you techy guys would be appreciated.
Laptop drives aren't like IDE drives, you can't just remove them and connect them to another computer without special cables and hardware.
You could use a cross-over cable and network the two computers. You would then be able to copy the data from the laptop to the desktop.
I'm assuming the laptop is out of warranty of course.
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On the back of the laptop you may have a vga port.. Plug any old monitor into that and boot up the machine.. The laptop should automatically light up the external monitor.. This way you can see what to transfer over or upload to the internet if you have storage there.
As far as "getting into the harddrive" sounds funny to me, Perhaps it's an OEM operating system so you can transfter the HD from like a Dell to a HP.
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could just get an external HDD enclosure and put the laptop HDD in it and use it a a portable drive and connect it to another comp. or the crossover cable mentioned earlier or parallel cable. or hookup another monitor that was mentioned. or i think there is a converter for the laptop HDD to Desktop HDD (2.5" HDD to 3.5" HDD) could look for one of those and do it that way.
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sounds to me like the repair place used you guys for experimental stuff. They should KNOW what needs to be replaced and you shouldn't have to pay for the part he installed because he didn't fix the laptop properly. Buzz has the right idea of using any VGA monitor to view what's in the laptop and then transfer things to another PC.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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To connect the laptop drive to a desktop, you just need a cheap adapter. Reference Name's recommendation in Response #4.
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Amen that Xp.......I've fixed enough laptops and I can tell you this much. Whoever they are, they don't know anything!
I've never seen a laptop that didn't have a connector for an external monitor. Connect the laptop to an external monitor, fire it up and network it to another PC to copy the data. That's the simplest solution.
The other option is to get a cable that plugs into a laptop HDD on one end, and a regular IDE cable on the other end. They're not overly expensive.
If you have need in the future for it, you can also purchase connectors that will plug a laptop HDD in one one end and connect via USB to whatever you wish to connect to (ie: a PC or another laptop). Those adapters aren't overly expensive either.
A word of advice for the original poster......don't EVER do any business with that company again. Look for a reputable company and insist on seeing the technicians credentials (their cert's should be hanging in plain site). At the very least, they should have A+ certification. If they work on brand name laptops, they should have cert's from the vendor as well. At least, this is true in the case of IBM and Toshiba (I have vendor cert's for both as well as numerous other vendor cert's). Many other vendors like Dell and HP/Comcrap make you send the equipment to their repair depot's. This method is a little slower then a local vendor approved dealer/repair shop.
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Thank you gentlemen for the suggestions and warning. I bought a new 15" monitor so he can continue using the computer. I am encouraging him to make dvd's of his data so if he has another problem, and he will, he will be more prepared.
Thank you all again.
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