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debitcardmayhem

Also give my friends a chance to help tell us which lappy you have that is dead. Also you you get the boot flash screen first or does it go straight off again?

pinkladyof66

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Also give my friends a chance to help tell us which lappy you have that is dead. Also you you get the boot flash screen first or does it go straight off again?

the boot flash screen comes on first then goes straight to switch off
have you any ideal as to how i can get my piccies off, if i can delete it all from system then i can perhaps recycle it to someone who might want to try and repair.

Thanks

It is a HP ze4906ea

Also i have not studidly saved any of the pics to any disc or stick, and there are some i could really do with, i dont have anything else on it apart from the pictures.

googler

pinkladyof66 wrote: »

the boot flash screen comes on first then goes straight to switch off
have you any ideal as to how i can get my piccies off, if i can delete it all from system then i can perhaps recycle it to someone who might want to try and repair.

Thanks

It is a HP ze4906ea

Also i have not studidly saved any of the pics to any disc or stick, and there are some i could really do with, i dont have anything else on it apart from the pictures.

Someone told you earlier - "put the HDD in a caddy"

In longer form; you'll need the use of another PC. Beg/borrow/steal from friends, or buy a new one before you dispose of this one.

Disconnect this one from the mains, remove the battery, discharge any static from yourself and remove the Hard Drive. There's generic visual tutorials on how to do this all over the web and in YouTube.

Once you have the hard drive in hand, determine if it is an IDE type or SATA. Armed with this knowledge, go to Maplin or a computer store and get a USB case/caddy to match it. Install HDD in caddy.

Connect to either your new PC or your friend's, and access the drive via Explorer. Copy pics off the drive.

That's the summary version. Do your own research on YouTube and other tutorial locations armed with this info.

macman

I'm guessing the original problem was just a flat CMOS battery, which would have cost you about £2 to replace. So perhaps rushing out and spending £450 was a little bit hasty...
Unless the hard drive has physically failed, all your pics should be recoverable-but did you not keep a back up (especially on an 8 year old machine)?