@Cg_Girl you're not a million miles away from me, I'm just outside Ely. If you want to bring it down to us one weekend I'll see what I can do, I've been an I.T.engineer almost my entire working life and I have a stack of old broken laptops, hard drives and various other bits and bobs (old keyboards/drives etc) that I may be able to sort it out for you or at least get it working and get your data backed up for you.
I may have missed it in the thread, what model is it?
Cg_Girl, just came across this thread, really do empathise.
I'm just in the middle of wiping the hard drive from my daughters old desktop, it's a few years old, running dual core something or other, Windows, with 4GB of memory, wired keyboard and mouse, but it works fine.
Quite happy to stick it in the post for you (I'll pick up cost of postage), you are more than welcome to it free of any charge , it would be just gathering dust otherwise.
Of course you will need a monitor.
and that
I think we've got a spare monitor somewhere - its only 15" but better than nowt
Its good to see the that team spirit TP is alive and well.
Well done to all you guys
That is most generous of you thank you..... let me know the postage, it's got to be hefty for the size etc, maybe i can do it in a couple of payments if thats ok
Honestly, there is no need, if you pm me your details, I'll stick the PC/keyboard/mouse in the post on Monday, I'll put in an Ethernet cable also (to connect PC to modem/router)
Pete, does the monitor have a power/VGA lead, if not I could probably find one somewhere around the house.
I've wiped the hard drive and re-installed Win7 and at the moment the PC is going through the process of downloading all the OS/Security updates, so when you get the PC, it will have a clean and up to date install of the OS
Glad you're getting something sorted T. if your situation changes and you want the laptop looked at let me know and we'll sort something out.
Could you put me down, please? I've got a server to run....makes the place seem all warm and fuzzy
If you can remove the current laptop drive I've got a spare caddy to make it an external USB drive. You can then plug this into another PC and hopefully recover some more data from it.
Again, don't worry about postage and PM me if you'd like it sending.
<---How to remove hard drive, dead easy really.
Well done everyone for chipping in with advice and hardware, makes the place seem all warm and fuzzy
Could you put me down, please? I've got a server to run.
Pete, does the monitor have a power/VGA lead, if not I could probably find one somewhere around the house.
Thanks , Has the monitor arrived yet? if so is it all working?Can I just publicly say a huge huge thanks to Les, PC arrived today .. What a true gem he is
Sent from button moon...
Thanks , Has the monitor arrived yet? if so is it all working?
If there's a problem with that monitor then let me know - I have a spare 19" Acer sat around that could go out on long term loan, and I'm probably not that far away.
Thanks , Has the monitor arrived yet? if so is it all working?
I've just realised I've got (had) T on ignore (history blah) so I wouldn't have received any pm's ref the monitor - and there I was thinking of it as an olive branch (buggerit millennium hand and shrimp) - sometimes I amaze even myself for sheer f***wittedness
I'm still happy to send it but T will need to resend the address - but that said if Toni is happy to do it I'd suggest taking him up on his/her kind offer as a 19" acer will be a lot better than a 15" ex corporate monitor of doubtful provenance (the extra 4 inches really does make a difference fnar fnar )
OK T, PM me have your address & I'll see when it can be dropped by.
As for BSM, don't hold it against him.
As for BSM, don't hold it against him.
@Les McLean and @ancient_mariner if TP did medals you guys deserve them hands down, as i have said before, i can't thank you guys enough ...
(@Cobra look i can 'v' now too.. yay! )