RIP - Any use?

Nelski

My laptop had a fatal incident this week from which I assume there is no coming back :sad:

There I was happily posting on mse , the screen went off and that was it - no hard drive noises (sorry but you know what I mean) and no little flashing lights so I feel the ventilator needs to be turned off :sad:

Ok so its 5 years old so am not expecting it to revive. Just wondered what happens to laptops that are at the end of their life - recycle? donate?it just seems a shame to fling an old friend:D

Its a HP compaq 7000 by the way and it was fully backed up so no data loss.

[Deleted User]

You could put the hard disk into an enclosure (10 quid) and get yourself a little portable hard disk out of the tragedy

Old laptops don't really retain value, esp for scrap parts

iviv

You may be able to take it apart and sell different parts/sell the whole thing as 'spares' on ebay. No idea how much you'd get for it (If anything) though.

Nelski

ringo_24601 wrote: »

You could put the hard disk into an enclosure (10 quid) and get yourself a little portable hard disk out of the tragedy

Old laptops don't really retain value, esp for scrap parts

I have images of a old donkey farm when you mention enclosures:D sorry big technonumbskull here:o

I do have an external hard drive that I use back up -would it still work with this do you think? I am ready for a new one though so maybe its just fling time

devizes18193

why not stick it on freecycle or ebay

Cat695

if you have a PS3 you could put the hard drive in there if its over 40GB this is what i did when my laptop died

sell the rest as spare parts on flebay

iviv

Cat695 wrote: »

if you have a PS3 you could put the hard drive in there if its over 40GB this is what i did when my laptop died

sell the rest as spare parts on flebay

I doubt that would work. Assuming the PS3 uses a standard 3.5" hard drive, nearly all laptops use 2.5" drives with a different connector. There's a chance you could use it in a ps3 or stick it in an enclosure designed to run 2.5" drives as the larger ones, but its not really going to be worth it. Especially as they spin slower.

culpepper

People will buy the old bits. There are all sorts of projects that they want them for, not just to mend their own laptop.
Or you could sell the whole thing as spares or repair and someone will most likely buy it to try and mend or salvage the parts from, themselves.
Some people make old laptop screens into digital photo frames so someone will probably want it even just for the screen.