Dell replacement replacement... LCD woes
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That could go both ways there.
How computer literate is the foreman? How tough is a portable laptop when thrown around? 
!Just had a techinicain out to my house today repairing and testing my fiber (thunderstorm). His portable was SO beat up!
BTW: my guys use access, XL, and info path on a daily basis. We communicate with each other and our clients and vendors from the jobsite in real time with pics of issues that we run into. We can stick some plants, too !
Thing about that (military spec?) machine: HEAVY!!!
BTW: my guys use access, XL, and info path on a daily basis. We communicate with each other and our clients and vendors from the jobsite in real time with pics of issues that we run into. We can stick some plants, too
!Thing about that (military spec?) machine: HEAVY!!!
If a portable is actually made tough you will certainly feel it if it gets tossed your way! (ouch! uch!) But when a portable is taken out on the job and sees something like the morning coffee dumped on it you will certainly be looking for a more then tough notebook. You will need carrying cases that can take abuse too!(golly my gosh a steam roller just went over my... )
EDIT: You won't want to be looking at "bad apples" since they now have a 1 million unit recall going due to battery problems!
But when a portable is taken out on the job and sees something like the morning coffee dumped on it you will certainly be looking for a more then tough notebook. You will need carrying cases that can take abuse too!(golly my gosh a steam roller just went over my... )EDIT: You won't want to be looking at "bad apples" since they now have a 1 million unit recall going due to battery problems!
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Same batteries as the dell recall that cooked my first machine
.Update-data recovery: The data recovery folks who were doing my work said whatever is wrong with my drive killed the replacment HD as well. That's the bad news. Good news is they aren't charging me a thing for all that work (was a $500 max charge) since they didn't recover any data.
I asked them if I sent it out to one of those companies that charge 2 or 3K for the service would they have better luck. They said they had the same technology as the high-priced guys, they just don't charge as much for it. So, I'll be picking up my dead drive and hoping that technology will someday be able to recover this data directly from the disks
.If it was just partition information lost where you couldn't access the drive one idea that could have been suggested for copying files off of a drive would be to boot off of a livve Linux distro. I've worked with a few of those like Gentoo, ubuntu, and the most commonly recommended Knoppix Live for cd. If the read heads or spnidle is done you wouldn't get anywhere there either. To use a live distro however the old drive would have to be connected to another laptop thru an external casing through a usb port. Or if the files were small enough put a floppy drive in for copy onto floppy with the live distro as the OS used. You simply boot off the cd to run one.
The drive was damaged when my laptop overheated (battery). We couldn't get it to spin. Sorry to say, I think I'm SOL. The folks that were doing the work bought a new exact replacment drive (model, manufacture date),and put the parts they could pull off it onto my drive (its a dual-disk type, so they couldn't mess with the disks although they say they looked good). Whatever was wrong with my drive killed those parts. At least I'm now a hardcore backer-upper!
I've been strictly using dvd-rs not cd-rs for backups for the last two years now. I got tired of trying to relocate the various updates, system tools, and a ton of things along with various files like bmps, jpgs, wavs, etc. that were either found online or created on the system.
At this point the original drive is obviously too far gone probably due to the controller card there. While the platters were seen in good condition the controller card is what cooked. Did they try replacing that? They probably did since that is the electronic portion of the drive. Sounds like something is now shorted to ground. That could be in the harness easy enough if wires there were fused from the heat.
At this point the original drive is obviously too far gone probably due to the controller card there. While the platters were seen in good condition the controller card is what cooked. Did they try replacing that? They probably did since that is the electronic portion of the drive. Sounds like something is now shorted to ground. That could be in the harness easy enough if wires there were fused from the heat.