Posted on 04/02/2019 2:49:27 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Tech Ping: Chickensoup is in Hot Water. Computer Died a Horrible Death. Need to Save Its Soul!
Chickensoup's trusty Acer Aspire E1 met its fate with a bottle of Pellegrino water yesterday afternoon. Stupidly instead of turning the computer off when the accident happened, the Soup thought it was ok to run it, and after about 5 minutes the whole thing turned off. No power nowhere. Something shorted out.
Acer has not been backed up in a few weeks and the new data needs rescue.
Trusty Acer needs to have a hard drive recovery including .pst outlook files
The Soup has been looking online and except for Staples and one Asian company all the rest of the data backups are far away and look sinister.
Except for the ones that are porn sites...on a different subject... Chickensoup was shocked! shocked! at the variety of uses of common household objects in the sexual adventuring world...
Ahem, back to the poor broken computer...chickensoup needs to save the hard drive and access it to order another computer same build.
So the first question: Where to get saved?
Second question: is there a current computer out there of similar build?
https://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-e1-731-4699-17-3-pentium-2020m-4-gb-ram-500-gb-hdd-us-international/
It has a dvd player burner, the big port for the blue cord to the internet, wireless, 3 usbs 17 inch screen Win7 and it loves me.
I would be grateful for some direction.
(Saved in my Amazon wish list...thanks)
Lightbulbs aren’t too bad, just make sure one can reach.
I have wrecked a few computers in my day. I have bad luck with data heh.
You cannot just put the hard disk on just any old other computer if its OS is 64-bit. Some of the people responding to you here are not giving you proper and useful advice.
And actually, it is really not the smartest to ask for computer advice on a site for which that is not the prime purpose. Lots of times, "free" advice from a wannabe is not free. It camn be very expensive--to you, that is, not them.
What you need is a local shop or experienced echnician who charges for his expertise, and whose business depends on it. Not FR, where even a real repairman cannot see your machine and open it up.
Bkm
You got some direction when the mods moved this tripe into chat. You people need to stop cluttering up "news" with your silly threads. It wastes bandwidth and detracts from important threads.
Take a Pic with a Smartphone that’s a good clean pic. Then just expand it.
laptop.
Please quit abusing the news forum. This is chat - and you’ve been here long enough to know that.
Buy something like the Anker 3.0 USB dock (or a hard drive enclosure), plug it into your old hard drive, and copy your files to your new computer. Or you could just use your old hard drive as an external hard drive.
I am A+ certified and repair/upgrade the family’s computers.
Double bump for Justa’s post.
Tell us more about the porn.
Geede dude, take a chill pill. CSoup has Tech trouble and is not the Only Freeper to do so. I’ve been here since the 2000 Election from the Land of Hanging chads. If the Posting is under the wrong category then PM the Mods and ask it to be moved.
If not then please give it a break and go piss on somebody else’s bowl of Corn Flakes.
Got a Best Buy nearby?
These are handy as hell.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apricorn-data-transfer-cable-gray/3459621.p?skuId=3459621
Use onedrive or google drive and put everything you want to save to it. Basically it appears as another drive on your pc but it’s on the cloud. The bonus is that you can access it from other devices as well.
thank you. I didn’t know that.
Not so close
...cornflakes.
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could not have expressed it better myself
Tell us more about the porn.
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LOL go find your own pron...
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