RE: dead laptop
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil L. Roeth [mailto:neil@occamsrazor.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:32 PM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: dead laptop
>
> My Sony Vaio will not power up. :-(
I'm sorry to hear that :-(
> I got a few blinks out of the LEDs, but no startup screen, no hard
drive
> spinning up, nothing. Any suggestions of things to try before I send
it
> out
> for repair? I was thinking that if I do send it out I should try to
copy
> everything off the hard drive first, in case they wipe it in the
process
> of
> repairing it. I have a backup from a month ago, but I'd like to save
what
> I
> did more recently. I've heard of people removing drives from
notebooks
> and
> hooking them up to desktops, but I've never done it. What do I need
to do
> in
> order to make this work, i.e., what cables and such, and are there any
> gotchas?
For about $20, you can buy a USB hard drive caddy that you can plug your
laptop into. We use them at work when laptop hard drives start going
bad (you can save stuff off of them occasionally). I haven't tried
hooking one of these up to a Linux box, but I'm pretty sure it works
similar to the USB keychain hard drives (SCSI emulation).
If you want to hook your drive up to your desktop, you can get an IDE
connector. It basically is a little piece of circuit board that plugs
directly into the laptop hard drive and on the other side will take the
normal IDE cable (there's a power connector there somewhere too). I
think those are pretty cheap, maybe $5.
(I just found one: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108)
I hope this helps!
Jeremy
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