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Help me please (Broken Laptop)
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kitty_and_gucci_2008
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Hi,
I would appreciate some advice please.
Currently have a laptop (1 year old) which I took to a well know PC shop. They stated the hard drive is broken and it would need replacing. Unfortunatley I do not have the recovery disc and dont want to spend in total of nearly 180 pounds to fix, install and buy the new recovery disc from Toshiba.
Is there anywhere I could sell it?
Thanks.
I would appreciate some advice please.
Currently have a laptop (1 year old) which I took to a well know PC shop. They stated the hard drive is broken and it would need replacing. Unfortunatley I do not have the recovery disc and dont want to spend in total of nearly 180 pounds to fix, install and buy the new recovery disc from Toshiba.
Is there anywhere I could sell it?
Thanks.
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Hi, I sold a broken laptop on ebay, i think we got about £80 for it, try it, someone will buy it0
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kitty_and_gucci_2008 wrote: »dont want to spend in total of nearly 180 pounds to fix, install and buy the new recovery disc from Toshiba.
You might not have to - was that just what the shop quoted? Have a look on the laptop for a windows sicker that has the CD key on it.
If you can find one then you can borrow an install disk to get windows back on and a new hard drive will cost far less than £180. Then you just need your drivers which are almost certainly on the Toshiba website.Everyone needs a volume control -
When you shout every day and make everthing a catastrophe,
no one will hear you when you need to say something really important.0 -
inamabilis wrote: »You might not have to - was that just what the shop quoted? Have a look on the laptop for a windows sicker that has the CD key on it.
If you can find one then you can borrow an install disk to get windows back on and a new hard drive will cost far less than £180. Then you just need your drivers which are almost certainly on the Toshiba website.
Borrow one? where from?
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Friends? Neighbours etc.
Was it XP? Have you found that sticker?Everyone needs a volume control -
When you shout every day and make everthing a catastrophe,
no one will hear you when you need to say something really important.0 -
or pit in a new hard drive and in stall linux from a live cd is free and easy to do0
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Only really an option if the live cd has the drivers for the components in the laptop - would help if we knew the model number of the laptop?Everyone needs a volume control -
When you shout every day and make everthing a catastrophe,
no one will hear you when you need to say something really important.0 -
Toshiba Satellite L30-11D
Model No - PSL33E-040031EN
Runs Vista0 -
Just out of interest,I bought a new laptop a couple of weeks ago and I did'nt get any discs with it.Should I have?.It's an Acer Aspire 5920.0
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I'd edit out your product keyEx forum ambassador
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Do edit out your product key ASAPEveryone needs a volume control -
When you shout every day and make everthing a catastrophe,
no one will hear you when you need to say something really important.0
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