ARGH....Laptop just died, Now what?

[jluck]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

Leave it alone and take it someplace for repair. You could try Best Buy -- some of them are stellar and some not so much. They will charge you to open it up and look. They should be able to salvage some of your hard drive but it won't be cheap. THe more you boot it, the more data you can lose...

Having been through this myself a number of years ago, I can tell you that while a PIA backups are a good idea. You can get a chreap external USB hard drive at Costco or the like that you can use. Then you (all of us) need the discipline to make a backup once a week or once a month -- whatever suits you.

I will heed this advice. I know when I have no business messing with something. I know lots of computer "experts" that ruin computers on the regular.

I might just buy a new one and see what can be extracted from my current one. This will really hurt the Habano account....