screen broke - what do i do desperately - urgently

googler

Do you have any other laptops or PCs in the house?

Laptops are made up of component parts, as are desktop PCs. The component that has the DATA you want to work on is the Hard Drive. All else is superfluous to this in an emergency situation like this.

You can take the Hard Drive out of the laptop and install it in another laptop (within limits) and work from it there.

You can install it as a secondary or primary drive in a desktop and work from it there (again with some limitations). You may need adaptors to adapt the wiring in the desktop (for 3.5" drives) to the laptop drive (2.5"), but it's doable.

Do you have a Maplin, PC World or similar close by?

raq

macman wrote: »

You need to give the model no. in order to get proper advice/prices-there are hundreds of Samsung laptop models.
It won't be worth claiming on your household insurance, even if accidental damage is covered.

hiya

just briefly, i wasn,t happy doing household insurance.., but what are your thoughts on claiming ??

model is rv515

raq

googler wrote: »

Do you have any other laptops or PCs in the house?

Laptops are made up of component parts, as are desktop PCs. The component that has the DATA you want to work on is the Hard Drive. All else is superfluous to this in an emergency situation like this.

You can take the Hard Drive out of the laptop and install it in another laptop (within limits) and work from it there.

You can install it as a secondary or primary drive in a desktop and work from it there (again with some limitations). You may need adaptors to adapt the wiring in the desktop (for 3.5" drives) to the laptop drive (2.5"), but it's doable.

Do you have a Maplin, PC World

hiya

yeah we have both literally a 5 minute drive away. Do they give information without charging??

we also do have a second laptop, it,s my daughters, but it is very very slow and takes ages.

Thanks for this brilliant advise

buglawton

I don't know anyone with children who has not had a laptop come to grief!
That's why until my family were all adult we had PCs as the main machines.

Both Maplin & PC World will overcharge (and maybe send your machine away to a far central repair depot first).

If you can find a decent 'back street' repairer so much the better.
E.g. there's an Indian chap at the indoor market stall every day, some days I see him repairing a laptop at his stall. Such a repairer would first check it's not just the internal connectors come loose, then he'd source a cheap replacement lcd. It would be a quick/cheap as any other way of getting this repaired, just try to find someone who looks like he knows what he is doing.

There ARE cowboys about, the rule is, the more they advertise, the less good they are!

googler

raq wrote: »

googler wrote: »

Do you have any other laptops or PCs in the house?

Laptops are made up of component parts, as are desktop PCs. The component that has the DATA you want to work on is the Hard Drive. All else is superfluous to this in an emergency situation like this.

You can take the Hard Drive out of the laptop and install it in another laptop (within limits) and work from it there.

You can install it as a secondary or primary drive in a desktop and work from it there (again with some limitations). You may need adaptors to adapt the wiring in the desktop (for 3.5" drives) to the laptop drive (2.5"), but it's doable.

Do you have a Maplin, PC World

hiya

yeah we have both literally a 5 minute drive away. Do they give information without charging??

we also do have a second laptop, it,s my daughters, but it is very very slow and takes ages.

Thanks for this brilliant advise

I meant Maplin or PC World for buying the adaptors for placing the HDD in a desktop, not for advice on how to do this. You said you wanted to work with the data on the laptop, I'm addressing this, not how to get the screen repaired (which other posters seem to be concerned with)

The other laptop may be slow, but that's to a certain extent a function of its own HDD and what's on it. Place the HDD from the injured laptop in it, and it should run at the speed of the injured laptop (assuming them to have similar RAM memory specs and similar processors)

Why do so many folks on these forums have difficulty with leaving the closing QUOTE tag in place?

Figment

raq wrote: »

thanks guys.

it is a samsung laptop.

screen isn,t cracked just a blur of a rainbow. when my hubby comes back i will ask him to dig out the cables from our flat screen tv and operate the computer from there.

am i correct in doing this??

The 'blur of a rainbox' is caused by a crack in a layer of the screen.

Connect the laptop to your TV, change TV input accordingly, thn switch laptop on. You may need to switch between internal and external display using a combination of the Fn key and one of the row of F keys (F1 - F12) along top of keyboard (often F8 but look for a symbol representing two screens)

raq

Figment wrote: »

The 'blur of a rainbox' is caused by a crack in a layer of the screen.

Connect the laptop to your TV, change TV input accordingly, thn switch laptop on. You may need to switch between internal and external display using a combination of the Fn key and one of the row of F keys (F1 - F12) along top of keyboard (often F8 but look for a symbol representing two screens)

thanks for this info. Hubby still wants to go ahead and get it fixed through the house insurance .

I also wouldn,t have a clue who to go to to get it fixed. i..e. indoor market. Rang maplins and said they don,t repair.

raq

buglawton wrote: »

I don't know anyone with children who has not had a laptop come to grief!
That's why until my family were all adult we had PCs as the main machines.

Both Maplin & PC World will overcharge (and maybe send your machine away to a far central repair depot first).

If you can find a decent 'back street' repairer so much the better.
E.g. there's an Indian chap at the indoor market stall every day, some days I see him repairing a laptop at his stall. Such a repairer would first check it's not just the internal connectors come loose, then he'd source a cheap replacement lcd. It would be a quick/cheap as any other way of getting this repaired, just try to find someone who looks like he knows what he is doing.

There ARE cowboys about, the rule is, the more they advertise, the less good they are!

just a silly question....but where does buglawton come from. the name that is??

Guardsman

Buglawton is a suburb of Congleton, in the south-east of Cheshire

Figment

raq wrote: »

thanks for this info. Hubby still wants to go ahead and get it fixed through the house insurance .

I also wouldn,t have a clue who to go to to get it fixed. i..e. indoor market. Rang maplins and said they don,t repair.

Repair is likely to cost in the region of £100. Excess on your contents insurance is £100.

Maplin sell components. They do not repair computers.

There are independent computer repair shops in most towns. Ask around. Get quotes from at least two of them.