Rubbish computer!!!!!!!

My hard drive has blown on my laptop!!!!

Sooooo annoyed!!!

Mine did that a few months back and it wasn't backed up and I lost all my photos

Unlucky though not like HDD's are expensive though unless its a SSD even they are not to bad these days.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=14&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=896

Always keep backups!

Oh no , I feel your pain . Sane thing happened to us and we lost all our pics including ones of Taz . Was heartbreaking as well as expensive

I've been through 3 drives on this laptop in 18 months. Sometimes the slightest knock can kill them.

SSD's have come down in price quite a bit recently, so are worth the investment for the extra reliability, if you don't need loads of space...

Well just had a phone call, the mother board is broken!!!! What they hell do i do!!

laptop are cheap these days if it going cost more then a new one i would just invest in a new one

rebeccaleanne wrote:Well just had a phone call, the mother board is broken!!!! What they hell do i do!!

What spec laptop is it?

Steve wrote:laptop are cheap these days if it going cost more then a new one i would just invest in a new one

i know it was paid through work but still it takes the mick and i aint got a few hundred billies to replace haha will have to speak to the boss he is going to love me!! at least it isnt my fault

Paul H wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Well just had a phone call, the mother board is broken!!!! What they hell do i do!!

What spec laptop is it?

its a compaq presario cq57

Yeah defo gonna be a matter of just replacing it then really not worth replacing MOBO in a laptop of that spec.

johneva wrote:Yeah defo gonna be a matter of just replacing it then really not worth replacing MOBO in a laptop of that spec.

its just a works one which was to be used for docs (so lost £100 office!!!), emails and uploads for our ebay site

just peeved

Aye, sell it for scrap on ebay. You can get Open Office for free to replace microsoft office....

Paul H wrote:Aye, sell it for scrap on ebay. You can get Open Office for free to replace microsoft office....

Does that have excell etc on?

rebeccaleanne wrote:

Paul H wrote:Aye, sell it for scrap on ebay. You can get Open Office for free to replace microsoft office....

Does that have excell etc on?

It has a spreadsheet, fully compatible with excell file formats. I've been using it for a few years, and regularly move docs and spreadsheets between MS office and open office.

johneva wrote:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=14&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=896

Always keep backups!

Overclockers is where my hubby always gets computer parts from, and he is always saying BACKUP

Haha cheers guys, nothing really to loose as i have paper trail via email its my old laptop that i need to sort!!!

Kathy wrote:

johneva wrote:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=14&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=896

Always keep backups!

and he is always saying BACKUP

spot on!!!
janey, if you still have your old hdd i may be able to get the pics back depending on the failure. pm me if your want.
SSD's are okay but not the god send yet unless you spend megga bucks. mainly static data and they will do you fine but for more dynamic stuff they have a relative short shelf life V's a standard disk plus a raptor kicked a SSD in a recent test of overall performance and not just seek times.saying that i have been tempeted myself...