> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil L. Roeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
