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I dropped my netbook and now it won't boot up. It was switched on at the time which is apparently worse. All I want to do is extract my files from it, but you probably only get one shot at it so I really want to find someone skilled, careful and experienced to do it! I did a search on the forum and messaged someone called Jaybee, or similar, but got no response so I wondered if anyone else had had this done successfully? I did ask in a couple of service centres in an indoor market and they said I had to leave my netbook with them for a couple of days, which I really don't want to do. Anyone who's dropped their laptop- did you have to leave it with the repair person, or was it a fairly quick operation so you could hang about until it was done? My files are important to me only, but still, I don't want anyone else looking at them!!
Thank you very much, r-c. I don't know what an optical drive is so will go & google it now. it does fire up, & says the files are loading, which fills me with false hope, because it then gives me a message that has absolutely no meaning to me whatsoever. My netbook doesn't have a cd drive tho, will i still be able to try the linus thing? Thanks again for taking the trouble to reply.

Ok, back already, no optical drive so that is more bad news for me, i

guess. But hopefully this will have helped somebody else who does (& has also thrown their laptop

on the floor :-(

R-c, if you have any more ideas feel free to throw them my way!

  • 5 months later...

It's about time I updated this... A few guys pm'd me about this problem and I did my best to judge their characters from their pm's and decided to choose Kozan, who appeared to be a decent type of guy. He said he would be able to retrieve my data at my house, which was exactly what I wanted- except I wasn't living at my house anymore so he agreed to meet me at a caf? in South London of my choice and he tried to fix it there. He spent about 3 hours doing that while I looked anxiously on. He couldn't fix it the easy way, though, and he told me he would have to take it apart after all and he didn't think a cafe was the best place for that so he would have to take it away with him i.e. I would have to Trust him with it. That was really hard for me, I wouldn't trust the angel Gabrielle with my data but, having sat next to him for 3 hours he did seem like a nice person so I let him leave with my laptop. If we had been in my home he would have been happy to do it all there, and he did offer to do it in my new place but it was out of his work area so it would have cost me more. Anyway, he kept me updated with progress by texts and 2 hours later he had put all my data on a USB and another copy on a CD disc-an extra copy 'just in case' which was nice of him. It has taken me months to check what's there because the new thing I bought to replace the laptop doesn't have a USB port or a disc drive (!) but now I have and all but about 4 or 5 files out of a few hundred are there, so I think he did a really good job. The missing files are still ?kind of? there, in what he calls a ?ghost? form and he is going to have another go at recovering those for me.

So, I recommend him, and his prices are reasonable. But please don't suffer like me- back-up, back-up, back-up!!!

Kozan:mobile w 079 0342 4569 | p 077 7987 5433 / e-mail [email protected] /web www.savoirman.com

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