oh *******....

[anonymous-user]

oh crap

I have to hand in my PhD. thesis in 1 month.

I have it all on my laptop.

my laptop is not switching on. at all.

st st st st.

obviously I have it pretty much all backed up, up to a couple of weeks ago, and most of the changes in text I have backed up till yesterday... just not figure and diagrams i've made. so I should be ok but this is a major ballache.

so remember: back st up!

[Shaw Tarse]

Delete pron!
Delete PH!

[TheCarpetCleaner]

no big drama to pull the hard drive out and pull the data off if it's just the laptop that's fked.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Lucky you can still post here though! Priorities!

[grumbledoak]

Good luck. You can always re-draw a couple of pictures!

As I remember, mine was on a couple of 'floppy' 3.5" disks that I carried around...

[anonymous-user]

i should have a dedicated USB stick for the whole thing that i put under my pillow when i sleep. unfortunately i have about 10 gig of data all told (for the whole thing)

am posting whilst installing all the software i need on my PC (thesis is on my macbook).

[Flintstone]

I'll write it for you.













What's it about?

[Shaw Tarse]

Flintstone said:

What's it about?

Alfie?

[srebbe64]

Can't you remember which website you copy & pasted it from?

[funkyboogalooo]

The dog ate mine

[austin]

DangerousMike said:

am posting whilst installing all the software i need on my PC (thesis is on my macbook).

Try starting the Mac up while holding the "T" key down, if it works you now have an expensive firewire drive that you can get the data off.

[limpsfield]

I hate these threads with cryptic titles so you have to click on them to find out what it is only to confronted with yet another student IT problem.

run a magnet over it

[grumbledoak]

limpsfield said:

run a magnet over it

[jamoor]

Not hard, if the hdd still works.

Just take it out and connect to na interface.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Flintstone said:

What's it about?

A thin dog net a fat dog & was eaten. The end.

[a boardman]

Flintstone said:

What's it about?

computers and why you should you back them up.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks austin, tried that already. The problem is that the power button doesn't even work - the thing won't power up.

basically, it woke from sleep and the keyboard and trackpad were not working. This problem has happened to me before, i normally just restart and its fine. couldn't restart as the power button wasn't working. I pulled out my USB drive - message flashed up on the screen (so it works ok when it's on!), I then unplugged the power g and removed battery. laptop powers down. put battery back in, laptop doesn't power up.

I've tried all the appropriate resets etc. still knackered.

as for what my thesis is on - i can't remember the exact title but its about chemistry and stuff.

[sniff diesel]

limpsfield said:

I hate these threads with cryptic titles so you have to click on them to find out what it is only to confronted...

Yep, then you get VBRJ'd by the re-post Police just because you haven't opened every single bloody thread to check.

[anonymous-user]

grumbledoak said:

limpsfield said:

run a magnet over it

fortunately, almost having a PhD. and working with gianter magnets than you can even imagine means that I know not to do that.

[Jonny_]

Easy one this is. Just buy a 2.5" USB hard-drive caddy (you'll have to check if drive is SATA or IDE interface, but if you don't know the difference your local computer shop will). Put drive in, plug into PC, and you should then be able to browse the drive and extract any data you need.

If you're not very computer-savvy your local computer shop should be able to do this.

HTH