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captain_slinky ([personal profile] captain_slinky) wrote2009-08-04 12:14 pm
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Laptop issues

Any idea how difficult/expensive it would be to replace the screen on a Dell laptop? Even if it's just temporary... need to retrieve some files off the hard drive.
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[identity profile] hallerlake.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Plug it into an external screen and copy files off?

[identity profile] pete23.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
if you need files from the drive, just open it up, extract the disc and shove it into a USB caddy?

or connect an external monitor?

fixing an LCD screen - even temporarily - sounds like the Hard WayTM.

[identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That is proving to be... problematic. The laptop already had issues, and the shattered screen just confounded the issue. Thought I might kill two birds with minimal rock depletion, but if I can't even get it to come up on the external monitor... maybe I just need to bag it :(

[identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ultimately, I'd like to get the whole computer fixed up for the owner. File retreival is kind of a "Plan B"

[identity profile] pete23.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
souns like plan B is becoming plan A:-(
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[personal profile] aurora77 2009-08-04 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch. Maybe a video card issue on top of it?

[identity profile] hallerlake.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you dismount the hard drive and plug it into a separate puter (or an external drive enclosure)

[identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... the more I get in to ti, the more I'm sure that file retrieval is the best I'm gonna be able to do.

[identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the next move... gonna see if I can borrow (or purchase) an external drive enclosure. Reluctant to just pop it in to my computer because it was "Acting all weird" before they broke the screen.

[identity profile] rogh-sensei.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Forget the enclosure. Get one of these.

[identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed a very nice device... but I'm looking at either $40 for that, or $10 for a cheap-ass USB enclosure.

Me thinks a trip to Fry's is in my future!

[identity profile] nealbailey.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I would go to a library and hijack a monitor with the permission of the librarian. Or a Best Buy, and promise to buy your next computer there if you can jack in just for visuals for five minutes.

[identity profile] nani-ka.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Talk to freak. He has the equipment you need already to hook the old drive into any computer via IDE/USB....
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