nathy_87
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A friend, had rage problems couple of weeks ago, and got that pissed off he done something to his laptop which made not turn on. 
Took it to a local computershop and said it's the motherboard and be between £100-200 for repair. That's fine, however he needs some important files (no, not porn images or anything like that) can he still retreive these?
Any help much appreciated.  
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Y869 SRA
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Files are on the hard drive so shouldn't be a problem getting them when he gets the system back if thats what you meant.
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nathy_87
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shit my bad, not motherboard (fuck knows where that come from) it's the hard drive. So no chance?
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Y869 SRA
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Confused me you did there
I guess your friend could get the shop to transfer the data to the new hard drive if possible. It all depends on what exactly is the problem with the drive.
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nathy_87
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Sorry.
Ok will pass that on.
Thankyou. 
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Sam
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I doubt the hard drive is causing it to not turn on.
Your description of what he did to it is vague TBH, I would hazard a guess that he either dropped it or launched it somewhere.
U2U me if you want some prices for diagnosis/repair.
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Ian
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Depends if he means it turns on but doesn't boot.
Data recovery is expensive and difficult and you wouldn't always get the stuff off it. Take it to someone who knows what they're doing not a random shop who will just put a new drive in and do a new install on Windows.
Plus a quote of £100 to £200? I'd want the price not to double just because they didn't quote properly.
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Sam
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Sounds like a price/diagnosis PC World would give
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Ian
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£100 or twice that. Daft.
I would think this guy is going to have to give Sam a good few hundred quid.
How big is the drive? Last time I did one at about 80Gb it took 13 hours.
[Edited on 17-11-2012 by Ian]
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Sam
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I do think the drive is probably ok personally, but obviously couldn't confirm for sure without checking out the laptop in person.
Some of the laptops I've worked on in the past most people would have just walked away from repairing and told the customer to just buy a new one I reckon
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fazza
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Get that loads in my shop too sam(other half of shop does pc/laptop repairs etc)
Mainly people coming from pc world that have been told they need a new machine
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